Comedian Ron White has this really funny monologue where he says that he once gave an alias to a cop by telling him that “They call me “Tater Salad”. Well today’s recipe is ‘Tater Salad” but they still don’t call me that—I’m just the “Cheap Bastid”.
You can make a quick and easy potato salad from stuff you’ve got on hand—assuming that the “stuff” includes potatoes, of course. There’s nothing magic about it, just go into the “crisper drawers” in your fridge and see what you can chop up and add to potato salad.
That’s one of the things I like about cooking. Most recipes are “guidelines” rather than absolute rules for making a particular dish. I like making ‘tater salad—especially in the summer when I can boil up the potatoes early in the day so as not to get the kitchen too hot and then get it cooled down and the flavors “married” together well before dinner. Most of the time it’s just the two of us so I don’t make a huge batch just enough for us which usually means there’s some leftovers for a lunch or another dinner.
