Potato Salad May Help the Immune System

Science Daily ^ | 6-25-2007 | Society Of Chemical Industry

[CougarGA7]

I don’t think there’s a Fred Meyer here in New Mexico, but I’ll look for one when I’m on travel. I wouldn’t mind having a good potato salad.

Another thing I really miss is my Grandmother’s coleslaw. I’ve never found anything that has ever come close to what she used to make.

[blam]

"Sure, NOW you tell them."

I am them. (90% of the Irish have R1b DNA, just like me)

[mass55th]

My Dad's Dutch Slaw was served hot. I had forgotten that I'd found a recipe somewhere online that was similar to what he used to make. Here it is:

A Dutch Recipe

1 lb Bacon or salt pork
8 Hard Boiled Eggs
10 med Potatoes
1 head Lettuce, cut up

Fry bacon/salt pork.

Add bacon and eggs to cut up lettuce.

Heat bacon grease and add 1/4 to 1/2 cup vinegar. Heat throughly. Mash potatoes, add lettuce and egg and bacon. Pour grease and vinegar mix over potato mixture and mix together.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

“I dunno. It’s real Scotch he drinks on stage, large tumblers of it.”

Gawd! Really? That’s what my ‘NASCAR-lovin’, Country Rock or Die’ friend said too when he introduced me to this guys particular “brand” of humor.

I think it has to be a “schtick.” You can’t be a total fall-down drunk and keep getting gigs.

It worked for Dean Martin, though he never did drink (supposedly it was always a glass of apple juice and ice) and there’s really nothing new under the sun, is there?

I’m not disparaging the man; Funny is funny. :)

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Well, I wouldn’t put it past the Commies in MY state either to make us look better off “Agriculturally” than we are too, LOL!

I’m going out to kick over the Tater Tire Tower right now in protest!

Not really. I’d never hurt a ‘tater until RIGHT before it hits my dinner plate. :)

[Diana in Wisconsin]

“Diana, Do you make your own compost? Do you grow baking potatoes? Do you cut up hot peppers to add into your potato salad or is my wife the only one who does that?”

I have four compost piles. I’m totally lazy about it. They’re on a four-year rotation, and we push the oldest one over each Spring and then add the contents to the garden. But, since I have laying hens now, they get “first dibs” so we don’t have as much as we used to. And my boys are all grown now, so Husband and I don’t make as much veggie-matter waste as those fools used to, LOL!

I don’t bother with baking potatoes. They’re so cheap around here, as are onions and carrots. I’ll grow Fingerlings, or Blue potatoes now. In the past, I grew Yukon Gold because you couldn’t easily get them, but now you can get them every week at the local grocer.

I’ve never thought to add hot peppers to Potato Salad, but I’d give it a whirl. More likely with the mustard-variety, and not the German-variety. :)

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Yep. I love both of these books and recommend them at every opportunity:

“Square Foot Gardening” by Mel Bartholomew, and...

“How to Grow More Food on Less Land Than You Ever Thought Possible” by John Jeavons.

There’s also a great book on Urban gardening called “Anything Grows.” I forget the author, and it’s out of print, but I remember it was a female author, and she recommends “Edible Landscaping” ideas, as does Rosalind Creasy. Useful books to check which will change the way you look at your food and your yard, be it big or small...or none at all! :)

(I’ve never met Mr. Bartholomew, but I’ve met Mr. Jeavons, and he knows his stuff.)

No matter what the MSM tells you, you really CAN grow a lot of your own food along with what you have to buy. :)

[Mjaye]

Thanks, very good info re: types of potatoes.