I had a nice brisket in the crockpot, about to be sauced & tossed on the grill, beans were baking, & I realized I had no potatoes for making potato salad!!! I can't eat BAR-B-Q without potato salad! That's some sort of crime against 'MERRICA! So, in any situation like this, necessity is the mother of invention. Improvise! Stiff instant mashed potatoes, made by adding a little more potatoes than the directions called for, then add mustard, mayo, dill, deviled eggs, dash of celery salt, paprika and pickle relish...don't forget S & P, more pepper than salt...plus whatever you weirdoes (is that how you spell weirdo in the plural form? spell check says so...) put in your potato salad...and it's not half bad! The Big Guy rather fancied it! Success!
***That recipe was plucked from my previous blog & dated 4/18/14...a time when potato products were still legal in my household. They still make their way in occasionally, but when they do, I shame them with silent judgment and woeful disdain!
Nowadays, I use cauliflower for mashed potatoes, potato salad, I even replace rice for Chinese dishes with it! The Big Guy doesn't like cauliflower, but, I'm not a fan of diabetes, so... he has the choice of suffering through it, not eating it, or making the above. Today happens to be one of the days that I don't care if he ever eats again, which is a marked improvement from yesterday when I wanted to stab him repeatedly while prepping dinner. I think men can be the silliest of creatures at times, then one of them has to go and prove my theory by taunting a woman with a knife in her hand, dicing onions no less! I should probably make a note that all my Wushtof knives are dull...order a sharpening & honing steel. After all, getting stabbed with a dull knife is much more painful, and I don't want to hear any whining.
If you'd like to try it--cauliflower potato salad, that is, NOT stabbing your true love--just boil some salted water, dump in chopped cauli, cook 'til fork tender, drain well, very well...like EXTRA very well, and according to your taste, mash, whip, or beat into your preferred texture, as it tends to be a little grainy, then add your ingredients to taste. It would be awesome if I measured things for you, but I don't even do it for me, so...good luck!
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