Comments on: How to Make Potato Salad – 3 Tastey Recipes

By: Donna

Donna — Sat, 21 Sep 2019 03:21:48 +0000

I too am southern and have also never heard of using instant potatoes.And putting butter sounds disgusting. It says you are from Texas but most southern men would never speak to a woman the way you spoke to the lady above. If you are a southern cook why does it sound like you are being derogatory about southern food? Also I have never had potato salad in the south with no mayonnaise. The recipe above with no mayo. and 1/4 cup of mustard made with instant potatoes sounds disgusting.

By: Joel Brothers

Joel Brothers — Tue, 09 Oct 2018 01:40:32 +0000

You’re certainly entitled to your opinion, uninformed as it may be. Perhaps you should acquire some professional culinary knowledge before making snap judgments. If you will read the whole recipe, you will see that I did include mayonnaise to taste. However, mustard is the defining characteristic of Southern Potato Salad, and is what separates it from Northern Potato Salad. These are not really recipes, but merely basic guidelines of professional restaurant methods. Restaurants (and other chefs and professional cooks) commonly use instant mashed potatoes to improve the texture and body of many things., including soups, stews, baked goods, etc… Again, it was merely a suggestion, and a common one. If you’ve eaten in many restaurants, you’ve eaten instant mashed potatoes at some point.

I too have lived in the South for all of my 50+ years, and have been a professional cook, and Executive Chef there for over 30 years, in many different regions. Each locality in the South has their own local variations of cooking. Just because you disagree with a recipe does not make it an error, and you are obviously not professional kitchen staff. If you don’t like the recipe, then use your own. Your “southern cooking ability”, if it exists at all, is only represented by your own creations. You do not own the entire field of Southern Cuisine, and to suggest so is not only arrogant, but sightly offensive. As for looking for a similar recipe….look a little harder…. I did a 30 second search and came up with:

https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/84414/mamaw-thelmas-instant-potato-salad/,
https://www.geniuskitchen.com/recipe/instant-potato-salad-106697
https://www.geniuskitchen.com/recipe/moms-mashed-potato-salad-408406
https://idahoan.com/recipe/beas-mashed-potato-salad/
https://www.justapinch.com/recipes/salad/potato-salad/instant-potato-salad.html
https://www.cdkitchen.com/recipes/recs/251/Instant-Potato-Salad112072.shtml

And many more. I got tired of listing them.

Bon apetit.

By: Jacquilin Garrison

Jacquilin Garrison — Mon, 08 Oct 2018 14:27:19 +0000

While I appreciate your representation of the South in making potato salad, I must say I have never heard of a recipe with no mayonnaise. And to add insult to injury, so to speak; you state that INSTANT potatoes can be used!
My dear.. I have lived in the South all my 62 years and I was appalled by this recipe. Southern women take great pride in producing a well-made product. Please rectify this error as I, for one, do not want my southern cooking ability represented in this manner. I looked at a number of southern recipes before writing and found no such recipe.