Simple (Mayo-less) Mustard Potato Salad

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Sweet potatoes.  Potato salad.  We know.  We’re obsessed.

You may remember that there was a time when Z had decided to cut potatoes out of his diet.  In fact, he made a number of sacrifices, including cutting back significantly on portion-size and he managed to drop over just under 25 pounds. Nice work, right?

A never imagined that she would actually miss potatoes, but now that they are back, she can’t get enough.  We eat Rose’s Sweet and Spicy Sweet Potatoes all the time (we are told sweet potatoes are healthy) and we have potato salads coming out of our ears (less healthy, we know).

This isn’t the classiest salad, but it is relatively simple, and sure is delicious and will satisfy the potato cravings, at least until the next meal.

 

Potato Salad

(Makes 8 sides)

 

2 potatoes

2 stalks of celery

2 hard boiled eggs

1/2 tsp pepper

1/4 – 1/2 tsp salt

2 tbsp champagne wine vinegar

2 tbsp mustard

8 tbsp olive oil

Set two pots of water (one small, for the hard boiled eggs, and a larger one for the potatoes) on the stove to boil.

Chop celery while water boils.

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Combine the salt, pepper, wine vinegar, mustard, and olive oil and whisk together until incorporated.

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Hard boil eggs and set aside to cool.

Boil potatoes for 15-20 minutes. Drain, and cool potatoes for a few minutes.

Slice up potatoes into roughly 3/4 inch cubes, slice the hard boiled eggs into 1/2 inch cubes, and combine both of these with the celery.

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Add the dressing.

Mix.

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Enjoy!

If you aren’t on the Atkins diet and if you are up for something saucy and delicious, give this a shot. It may not be as healthy as Rose’s and it may be WAY less healthy than most other things, but we comfort ourselves with the fact that there’s no mayo in it.  That makes it healthy, right?