Summer is in full-force, and sometimes the coolest thing you can do is just look up through the leafy trees and do NOTHING! Well, today, we’re offering you a bit of comfort cooking at it’s best – Welcome to “Summertime Cooking” with Karin Beery! 🙂
When I read Karin’s recipe, I knew she was a girl after my own heart . . .
Favorite Seasonal Recipe with Karin Beery
I’ll be honest—I’m not sure what I was thinking when I agreed to write a blog post sharing my favorite seasonal recipe … in the SUMMER! It’s not that I can’t cook or don’t like to cook, but I avoid it as much as possible in June, July, and August. That being said, there’s one staple summer side dish that’s better than all the rest: my mom’s potato salad.
Before I give you the recipe, I need to warn you that I don’t really like recipes.* I use as much of each ingredient as I’d like to create the flavor and texture I’m craving. That’s why I include measurement ranges and not specific amounts. (*I always use recipes when baking, but I consider them optional for cooking.)
Here’s about what you’ll need: (for about 4 people)
1-2 large potatoes per person, cleaned, cubed, and cooked
½-1 onion, diced (for texture)
3-4 radishes, chopped (for color)
½-1 cucumber, chopped (for texture)
2-4 hardboiled eggs, chopped
½-1 c. sour cream
½-1 c. mayonnaise
1 jar of green olives (cut in half if you like)
1-2 tsp. celery seed
Mix it together and let it sit overnight so the flavors mix together (or at least for 2-4 hours).
I rarely make this because I don’t like to boil things when it’s hot outside, but whenever we have it at a family gathering, we make at least a triple batch. It’s that good.
I have to apologize, though—once you have this potato salad you’ll never be happy with store-bought mustard potato salad again!
Thanks, Karin!! Some of your ingredients for potato salad are new to me – but they sound SCRUMPTIOUS! The key, though, for me, is that there is NO MUSTARD!! Yay!!! At potlucks growing up, and even now, I know exactly which bowls to look for to find the potato salad that doesn’t include my least-favorite condiment – mustard!
About Karin
Karin Beery grew up in a rural Michigan town, where she wrote her first novel in high school. Today, she writes contemporary stories with a healthy dose of romance. When she’s not writing fiction, she’s reading, editing, or teaching it. In her free time, she enjoys watching University of Michigan football and action-adventure movies with her husband and fur babies.
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About Practically Married
Her fiancé left her his house—and his roommate.
Ashley Johnson moves to northern Michigan to finally meet her fiancé face-to-face, but she arrives in time to go to his funeral. With no home back in Ohio, she decides to stay in what would have been their house, except his cousin Russ lives there too, and Russ has never heard of Ashley. To complicate matters, her fiancé accidentally willed her the family farmhouse. Eager to please everyone and desperate to disappoint no one, she proposes a marriage of convenience that could solve her and Russ’s problems, if they can get past her aunt, his sisters, and an ex-girlfriend.
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Thank you for the recipe! I would add chicken too 🙂
Ooo, it would be a full meal, then!