The Cookbook

Make-ahead Mashed Potatoes

8 large potatoes
8 oz cream cheese
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup sour cream

Boil and mash potatoes... mix in cream cheese, butter,
sour cream and salt and pepper.

Put into 2-3 quart greased serving dish. Top with some butter
pats. Cover and store in fridge for up to 3 days.
Sprinkle with paprika and bake uncovered at 350 for about 40 minutes.
10-12 servings.

David Wade

Gopher's Potato Salad

10 lb Potatoes
1 c Celery, finely chopped
8 ea Eggs, hard-boiled
1 c Fresh parsley,finely chopped
2 c Dill relish
1 1/2 pt Mayonnaise
1 c Sweet relish
1/2 c Yellow mustard
2 c Salad olives, chopped
1 x Salt, to taste
2 c Onions, finely chopped
1 x Louisiana hot sauce

Boil potatoes in their jackets. Let cool, then peel and chop into large chunks. Mix mayonnaise, yellow mustard, Louisiana hot sauce, and salt together. Add potatoes, along with the rest of the ingredients, and mix well. You can make this the day before and refrigerate it overnight. You may need to put a little more dressing on it if it is a little dry. "Serves 8 Cajuns or 24 other peoples for a good picnic."

From Justin Wilson's "Outdoor Cooking With Inside Help."

Gopher

Loaded Baked Potato Salad

4 chopped hard boiled eggs

8 big Russet potatoes, boiled, peeled (optional) and coarsely diced

2 cups sour cream
2 Tbs. Hellman's Mayonaise

1 cup chopped green onions or fresh chives, reserve about 1 tbsp. for garnish
salt and pepper

1 cup chopped celery
1/2 cup minced fresh parsley
1 cup chopped white or red onions
1 cup salad olives (chopped green olives with pemientos)
6 strips of bacon, fried crisp and crumbled or bacon pieces to equal 2/3 cup
1 cup grated or cubbed cheddar cheese


How to boil eggs perfectly:
Boil eggs by placing eggs in sauce pan and covering with cold water. Bring eggs to a rapid boil. Immediately cover tightly with pan lid and move pan to cold part of stove. Set timer for 18 minutes. When timer buzzes, take pan to sink and immediately run cold water over and through eggs until they are cooled. Add ice cubes to chill further. When eggs are cooled, peel under running water. Chop in a bowl with a pastry blender or use an egg slicer and turn 90° after first cut.


Peel, coarsely slice, boil (until soft, about 8 minutes) and dice potatoes.

Mix sour cream, mayonaise, green onions, salt and pepper together in a very large bowl.
Add hot potatoes and stir.
Allow to cool to room temperature.

Add chopped eggs, parsley, onions, celery, olives and bacon. Chill. Top with reserved green onions and grated cheddar.

Flash McCord

CarGuy's Potato Salad

2 pounds deli potato salad
2 tablespoons diced jalapenos (recommended: La Victoria)
1 teaspoon Mexican seasoning
6 dashes chipotle pepper sauce (recommended: Tabasco)
1 scallion, chopped
1 tablespoon finely chopped fresh cilantro leaves

In a large mixing bowl, combine all ingredients. Cover and refrigerate 1 hour for flavors to meld. Serve chilled.

CarGuy

Scalloped Potatoes
Recipe #85629

A great potato recipe... so easy and absolutely delicious. The left overs are just as good, maybe even better the next day. This is one of my favorite and most prepared recipes, from my 1971 Florence Junior Welfare League Cookbook.
by Vicki G.

1¼ hours | 15 min prep | SERVES 6


4 cups thinly sliced potatoes
3 tablespoons butter
3 tablespoons flour
1 1/2 cups milk
1 teaspoon salt
1 dash cayenne pepper
1 cup grated sharp cheddar cheese
1/2 cup grated cheese, to sprinkle on top
paprika

In a small sauce pan, melt butter and blend in flour. Let sit for a minute.
Add all of cold milk, stirring with a whisk. Season with salt and cayenne.
Cook sauce on low until smooth and boiling, stirring occasionally with a whisk.
Reduce heat and stir in cheese.
Place a half of the sliced potatoes in a lightly greased one quart casserole dish.
Pour half of cheese sauce over potatoes.
Repeat with second layer of potatoes and cheese sauce.
Sprinkle the remaining cheese on top.
Top with some paprika for color.
Bake uncovered for about 1 hour at 350F.

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My additions were saute'd onions on top of each layer of potatoes and no paprika - instead, for color and taste, I added cooked, crumbled bacon and chopped chives with more sharp cheddar on top. Left the skin on the potatoes and they were fine, especially since sliced so thin.

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