Everybody has their own favorite potato salad recipe. You know, the only one you’ll make. Well, this is mine. Actually my Mom’s, or more likely her Mom’s. Or something like that. Anyways. This potato salad is absolutely perfect. Creamy, crunchy, classic–with just the right ratio of potatoes to eggs to celery to onion, with a super simple mayo-mustard dressing. The only catch? You must make it in this very yellow bowl for its perfection to truly shine through.
Yes, that faded Pyrex yellow bowl is the potato salad bowl. A piece of family history, if you will. If you don’t have one, don’t despair. Just be sure to serve it up with tons of paprika and it’ll even out. 🙂 Lots of paprika on potato salad is key, imo. Do you agree?
Maybe it’s easier for me to make it in this bowl because it’s one of those recipes where you just eyeball everything without measuring [though I did provide rough measurements in the recipe below, recorded from when I recently made this].
Regardless of the bowl, this is seriously the best potato salad I’ve ever had, and I hope you’ll give it a try too! But even though I think this is the best, I’m curious to know… what’s in your potato salad? Links welcome! I’m super curious. 🙂
P.S. I know I don’t usually post on Saturdays but I just joined The Salad Bar, which is a new monthly blogging group challenge. Wendy of The Weekend Gourmet started this group last month and I am so happy to be part of it. You can request to join by clicking on the above image [linking to our Facebook page]. The theme this month is potluck salads, so please check out the other awesome recipes below. I know I cannot wait to do just that later today!! 🙂 Have a great weekend!
Mom’s Potato Salad
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Ingredients:
- 6-8 white potatoes [about 2 lbs]
- 3-4 hardboiled eggs, chopped
- 2-3 stalks celery, diced
- 1 medium yellow onion, chopped
- about 1/2 to 1 cup Hellman’s mayonnaise
- about 2 to 4 tablespoons yellow mustard
- freshly cracked black pepper
- paprika
Directions:
Bring a large pot of water to boil, add potatoes, and cook until soft. When potatoes are cool enough to handle, cut into chunks and place in large mixing bowl. Add eggs, celery, and onion, then enough mayonnaise to coat. Add mustard to taste, then season with a little pepper and a lot of paprika.
Serve warm or chilled.
Time: 60 minutes.
Yield: 10-12 servings.
The Pajama Chef 
This is very similar to my potato salad. I wonder if our Moms knew each other! 😉
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too funny! 🙂 maybe so. haha.
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Your recipe sounds very much like mine also. I think it may have been the standard recipe for our Mother’s generation! I love that your family had a Potato Salad bowl.
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yeah, that’s probably true. 🙂
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Nothing beats Moms or Grandmas potato salads. That is a bowl of comfort right there. Yum!
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i know, right? i’m tempted to make another bowl this weekend!
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Great recipe, and love that you have made it so many times you don’t even need to measure anymore.
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i agree! no measure recipes are the best 🙂
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Everyone has a favourite potato salad, mine includes mustard, mayo, red onion and garden peas.
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i love the idea of garden peas!
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I like a good potato salad, but for me it’s the more eggs the better, so I guess I really love egg salad 🙂 but this looks and sounds great!!
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haha, too funny! i never really thought about how similar they are 🙂
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Great potato salad and I love Hellman’s mayonnaise too.
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glad i’m not alone in that 🙂
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There is nothing better than a little bit of tradition. the antique Pyrex bowl is a classic.
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yes, it certainly is! it originally had others in the set, but at least one is broken now. 😦
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Same with us, but it’s my MIL’s potato salad…heavy on the mustard! Your classic potato salad looks great…and I’m glad you’re part of The Salad Bar
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i think my mom uses more mustard than i do–i’m not a big mustard fan. i’m glad to be part of the salad bar too! thanks for organizing it!!
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Thank you. Very similar to my family’s potato salad. Have a great weekend.
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that seems to be the consensus, liz! 🙂 it’s a good recipe i guess!
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This is almost exactly the way my mom and grandma make it too. Except I think they use Miracle Whip instead of mayo. You definitely can’t beat a classic! Love the paprika on top.
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the paprika’s my favorite part! just love that stuff 🙂
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Oh my gosh, my mom has a set of three of those Pyrex pastel mixing bowls, must be from the ’50’s or early ’60’s. And she insists on Hellman’s mayo. This one’s a classic!
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too funny! my mom’s pyrex bowls were from the 70s or early 80s in primary colors–red (that has since been broken), yellow, and a small blue one. i have the blue and yellow 🙂
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Beautiful potato salad. And it looks SO delicious! And your photos make me want to jump through the screen!
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thank you veronica!
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Sounds delicious. I love potato salad!
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thanks michelle!
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I’ve been on a mission to find a good potato salad and this one looks really promising. It’s funny, when my mom makes pasta salad its always in a certain bowl. It just makes the salad taste better. 🙂
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yes it sure does! 🙂
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I haven’t had a good potato salad in far, far too long! This sounds so delicious & perfect fo.r a picnic 🙂
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thank you, eileen!
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I love eggs in my potato salad and think I’d adore this one. There are not many I don’t like! I’ve never sprinkled paprika on it though, that’s new to me!
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give it a try! 🙂 so good.
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