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Perfect potato salad

potato salad

What is so on-the-nose perfect about summer is that it is easy to create superb food with hardly any work. This luscious potato salad is a prime example of the less is more style of cooking that summer demands and which I embrace. A dozen perfect new potatoes simmered until tender and then drained, split open with a fork and tossed with a fragrant and peppery extra virgin olive oil from Spain. Rough chop a bundle of fresh parsley and several new green onions, toss them in, add salt and pepper and perhaps, if gilding the lily is your thing…it is of course mine…then toss in some crunchy bacon bits, preferably Wisconsin’s favorite Nueske’s. Either way, with or without the bacon, this salad is perfect. I complemented it with some grilled lamb and rose veal but I could have simply dined on this and been quite content.

July 21, 2009 | Filed Under food 

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6 Responses to “Perfect potato salad”

  1. Lisa on July 21st, 2009

    Nothing is as grand as new potatoes dug fresh from the garden and cooked for supper. Your additions are perfect. What lovely summer eating!

  2. Margie on July 22nd, 2009

    If it’s perfect without the bacon, then it must be divine with Nueske’s.

  3. Trig on July 24th, 2009

    Not just any olive oil… Arbequina extra virgine olive oil from Catalunya. Then you die and go to heaven.

  4. Pete on July 24th, 2009

    Great potato salad. Everything is better with bacon, especially Nueske’s bacon. I love that stuff!

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  6. Danielle on August 2nd, 2009

    I stumbled upon your blog weeks ago, very intrigued by the name . . . and absolutely thrilled to learn you’re in Wisconsin. I was born & raised in a small town near Madison, and try to get to the Farmers’ Market any time I’m back home.

    Anyway, I made this potato salad tonight, opting to gild the lily – I used a mixture of bacon drippings and olive oil to moisten the salad. It was amazing! My boyfriend was over for dinner, and he highly approves – this will definitely be in the regular rotation of sides!! It might be a new comfort food for me – delicious but a very simple composition of familiar ingredients. Thanks again for sharing this!!

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