Carol's Potato Salad

Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
                                                                   Marcus T. Cicero

I hate to tell you this but I'm still feeling a bit under the weather.  Just exhausted and lots of sinus drainage and coughing so I haven't been doing any art since returning from Virginia.  Saturday, Son #2 and his wife are coming to the cottage, along with Hoover, their basset hound.  He didn't really care what we made to eat as long as it included my potato salad.  In fact, I was asked to make my potato salad while I was in Virginia.  My family devours it and whenever I take it anywhere, people are always complimenting me on it...

Son #2 asked for me to make more than usual so he'll be able to take some home with him.  So of course I did, but I'm also going to make sure his wife gets this recipe so they can have it any time they want to make it.

CAROL'S POTATO SALAD

6-7 potatoes
5-6 eggs (2 for the top)
5 radishes, finely diced
1 carrot, finely diced
1/4 cucumber, cored and finely diced
1 celery stalk, finely diced
1 bunch green onions, finely diced

Dressing
1 1/2 cups real mayonnaise
1 1/2 teaspoons mustard
1 teaspoon sugar
salt to taste

Scrub and clean the potatoes.  Cook with the skin on, do not peel until later.  Make sure not to overcook.  I cook them until I can just get the fork in and it comes out easily.  As soon as I get the potatoes going, I get the eggs on to cook and right around the time my eggs are finished, the potatoes are about cooked.  Peel the potatoes after they are fully cooked and cooled a bit.

The easiest way to cook hard boiled eggs is to put the eggs into a pot and add cold water.  Bring to a boil.  As soon as it boils, turn off the heat and cover the pan with a lid and let set for 20 minutes.  Perfect hard boiled eggs every time! 

For the radishes, carrot, cucumber, celery and green onions; they all need to be finely diced.  I use my food processor for this.  Just cut your veggies into smaller, 1 inch pieces before putting into your processor, if you have one...

For the cucumber, I peel and cut what I need, then cut into quarters so you can core it more easily...

This is before I use the food processor...

and after...

If you don't have a food processor, just make sure all the veggies are cut as shown above.  But for the potatoes and the eggs, I cut them larger...

The dressing needs to be made in a separate bowl and mixed together well.  After putting all the vegetables into a bowl, along with the cut eggs, add the dressing and mix well...

Because I made a larger batch than normal, I put 3 sliced eggs on the top.  I also like to sprinkle a little paprika to add a touch of color...

I hope you enjoy this.  I know it looks like every other potato salad, but I guarantee it taste wonderful and you'll get lots of requests to make this over and over again.  FYI, I don't give this recipe to just anyone, so please enjoy it because you're special to me for following my blog.  Enjoy!!