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Title: Potatoe Salad
Post by: zxcvbob on June 08, 2022, 09:45:57 PM
Does anyone here put hard boiled eggs in your potato salad?  (I suspect about half do)  Do you think chopped-up fried eggs (over hard) or maybe even scrambled would work?  I don't like boiling and peeling eggs.
Title: Re: Potatoe Salad
Post by: BobR on June 09, 2022, 12:50:00 AM
Why don't you poach them hard and then use it just like you would a boiled egg. We do hard boiled egg in ours.

bob
Title: Re: Potatoe Salad
Post by: K Frame on June 09, 2022, 07:06:58 AM
I've never cared much for hard boiled eggs in my potato salad. I'd much rather have them deviled. I can eat a metric butt load of deviled eggs...

That said, I agree with Bob. Poach them. You can get yourself an egg cooker for under $20 at Amazon that will do a very good job.

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=egg+cooker&crid=1JQDMD7BSIC8S&sprefix=egg+cooker%2Caps%2C261&ref=nb_sb_noss_1


Title: Re: Potatoe Salad
Post by: T.O.M. on June 16, 2022, 11:10:52 AM
My grandmother used to make German potato salad, and she put hard boiled eggs in it.  That's what I grew up with.  Not healthy at all, but man was it delicious!  (Despite years of trying, I have not successfully recreated what she used to make, and no one in the family has her recipe. )
Title: Re: Potatoe Salad
Post by: K Frame on June 16, 2022, 11:17:20 AM
My friend John is first generation American. Both of his parents grew up in Germany; his Mom in Nuremberg. They came to the United States in the late 1950s right after getting married.

She always made German potato salad; by far the very best I've ever had. I tried many times over the years to replicate it using her recipe, and never any success.

She never put hard boiled egg in hers, though.
Title: Re: Potatoe Salad
Post by: charby on June 16, 2022, 01:21:06 PM
Hard boiled eggs and mustard in my potato salad. You can buy eggs already hard boiled. Kwik Star/Kwik Trip sells them in a sealed 2 pack in the deli case.
Title: Re: Potatoe Salad
Post by: MillCreek on June 16, 2022, 01:48:17 PM
I have found that the Amish potato salad in the WalMart deli is pretty close to my mother's recipe, and I like it.
Title: Re: Potatoe Salad
Post by: K Frame on June 16, 2022, 02:05:19 PM
Potato salad is one thing my Mother never really made. She made a crapton of macaroni and other pasta salads, though, even after the incident in which my entire school came down with food poisoning from feral macaroni salad when I was in first grade.

I didn't eat elbow macaroni based salads for over 30 years...