Mom's Potato Salad

I would swear my husband married me for my mom's potato salad. Yes. It's that good. If you don't believe me, I can give you references. No one knows why its so good. Could it be the way she cuts up the potatoes so small, or the special dressing she mixes up herself, or the celery she chops into it? Nobody knows! Not even her. She is happy to show anyone how she makes it, and she'll tell you there is no special secret. Well  maybe there's no secret, but it sure is special.

One time when a high school friend was getting married back home, she picked up a 10 lb bag of potatos and dropped it off at my parents house with a note from my husband and one of his friends to my mom that said, "You know what to do." They wanted to be sure when they came in for the wedding that weekend, there would be plenty of potato salad. As always, mom was happy to do it.

Now potato salad isn't the only thing mom is best at. I swear she is the greatest cook ever. From her haluski  to cabbage rolls to pineapple squares to her homemade bread . . .  . she rocks the kitchen! Then comes holiday time. Oh my, her stuffing is to die for. Everyone wants to eat Thanksgiving dinner at my moms and rightly so ~ pumpkin pies, stuffed celery, broccili & cheese casserole, and on and on.

Her potato salad remains her signature dish though. She's known far and wide for that potato salad, and there isn't an event that goes by that she isn't asked to make it. Like I said, its been talked and talked and talked about and no one knows what makes that potato salad so good, but if I was a bettin' woman, I'd bet it has something to do with all that Love she puts in it.