As promised, potato salad.

This post is unrelated to my lovely baby.  A complete 180 of what is normally written about, I will document my latest attempt at the "Priority potato salad."  

For those who don't know, Priority is a car dealership in Hampton Roads.  Last year, they opened a brand new, gigantic new building that has a nail salon, hair salon, movie theatre and cafe.  (Side note for clarity: My parents, Andrew and I all bought cars from Priority last year.)  Mom and I needed to get oil changes a few weeks ago so we brought our cars in to have them serviced.  We went around lunch time and decided to have lunch at their cafe. That is when we were smacked up side the head with an amazing potato salad... from a car dealership.  How peculiar. 

We re-created the potato salad for the 4th of July and it was a hit.  Here is my attempt at the recipe, which I made this afternoon and tried to document through photos and mental notes.  If you decide to make it, let me know how it turns out for you!

Priority Potato Salad

3-4 lbs of red potatoes

1/2 cup of red onion, sliced

2 handfuls of fresh green beans, cleaned and ends trimmed

1/4 cup of capers

3 hard boiled eggs, sliced

2 tbsp fresh dill

**The original Priority potato salad had 1 cup of cherry tomatoes sliced in half and 1/4 cup of sliced black olives, both of which were omitted today because I do not enjoy either. **

Dressing:

3 tbsp dijon mustard

1 1/2 - 2 tbsp mayonaise

1/4 cup of olive oil

2 tbsp apple cider vinegar

1 tbsp splenda (or regular sugar if you wish)

salt and pepper

Slice the potatoes.

Cook them until you feel they are done.  I keep tasting them so I am not sure how long it takes.

Slice the red onions thinly.

Clean the beans and trim off the ends. Blanch them in boiling water for about 2 minutes.

Drain the capers.

Hard boil your eggs.

Assemble all of the ingredients in the bowl, here comes the dressing.

The players in our dressing...

Mix the mayonaise and mustard together first.  Add the vinegar, sugar, salt & pepper.  Lastly add in the oil.  Adjust to taste.  If you like it tangier, add more mustard.  Less tangy, add more oil.  Just play around with the ingredients until it suits your fancy.

Our finished product. Yummy!

Hope you enjoy it as much as we did.  

Craving...

Being pregnant and all, I find myself wanting to eat anything mentioned in conversation, advertised, or presented to me. Even if presented through a website picture. Here are some things I wish I could eat right now... They come from the Etsy shop whimsyandspice.

Let me credit my Etsy Finds email for sparking this sudden interest in baked goods this morning. At 8:45am.


These caramel marshmallows would be perfection on top of even the crappiest hot chocolate.


















And if caramel isn't good enough for you, then how about the chocolate marshmallows? whimsyandspice, you're killing me.









Maybe I want to eat the pumpkin ginger sandwich cookies or the brown sugar gingerspice shortbread cookies... yummmmm.




Most important of all, and already sold out for the day on Etsy, is the chocolate butterscotch bars which look like they would be heaven in my mouth. I may have to find my own recipe for something like this and attempt to make some. I will probably think about them for the rest of the week.

Cheesy poofs

Ever since last night, after seeing someone eat them on a television show, all I want to do is eat Cheesy Poofs. I am thinking I may have to get some at lunch. I have a one track mind and I can't work because all I can think about is cheesy poofs! Ahhh! SO delicious! Gimme Gimme Gimme!



Update: I finally got my cheesy poofs. Took me a couple weeks but I ate some. They were delicious. I may even eat some more right now. :)