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[Stumpfarmer]

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[Stumpfarmer]

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I need a good recipe that doesn't taste like the stuff at the grocery counter.

I don't like sweet stuff or crunchy stuff in my potato salad.

I basically make the Creamy Potato Salad recipe in the red and white Better Homes & Gardens cookbook. But, I eliminate the sugar and the sweet pickles and the celery, and double or triple the amount of eggs that go in. And I mince the onion really really small in a chopper thingy, so no crunchies.

My standard potato salad, which mostly goes with broiled salmon, has (preferably finger) potatoes, dill pickles, sweet onions, lots of egg, and the dressing, to cut down on fat, is 1/3 mayonaise, 2/3 pureed the-kind-of-potatoes-in-the-salad, thinned down with pickle juice, garnished with fresh dill. I also make a nifty horse radish potato salad which is Yukon Golds, nothing but, dressed with sour cream, the potato puree trick, and more or less horseradish: I prefer more. That one goes with roast beef and the right company.

I've had salade nicoise and liked it but I can't commit to buying the ingrediants (tuna, nicoise olives, capers, two kinds of salad peppers, fresh snap beans, any number of other things... and either new or finger potatoes).

 

[RustyHen]

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[RustyHen]

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[KMHunter]

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Yeah but now my skin is soft as a babies butt!! Lol!

And I am so relaxed!!!

 

[Ogress]

Thanks for all the great tater salad recipes! I think my kids may eat 4-H's. They don't like crunchy or sweet in their salads either!

I do like the crunchy, so I double the celery! I put in bell pepper too, but then no one eats it but me

I don't like pickles in it unless they are crunchy dill, and then whole on the side.

I don't care for mayo - enough to act like glue is fine, but if I see it or smell it, I don't want it. Most store bought have waaay too much mayo.

That horseradish salad sounds yummmy! But again, I am the only one in my family who likes horseradish. Shouldn't have read that because now I'm craving a roast smothered in horseradish, but I bought salmon because it was $6.99/lb

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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I often make a small horseradish potato salad to go to the family fourth, and a big dill one; I like celery in mine but it's not a big favorite with the family. We are all creamy potato salad people, and not much for the sweet: my Grandmother said it was a religious difference, sweet vs savory potato salad.

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

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I have a started pair from Pips&Peeps I need to sell.

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

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Hey, I warned ya!

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

I have to thin my flock.

My DH discovered my dun laced wyandotte bantam while I was at work today (busted!) and totally flipped out on me when I got home.

He said it's not fair that I'm gathering up more breeds when I'll be relying on him to feed/water while I'm recovering from the c-section, nursing and taking care of the baby....he said he doesn't know when I'll stop accumulating (which is fine, because I don't know, either).

He said he has no time to build anything else. He pointed out that he spent 7 hours on my newest coop today and could have spent 3 inside and got the nursery done.

He said we're out of room for any more coops (I pointed out we have 10 acres and lots of room) and he absolutely refuses to do any more or build anymore than he has already.

I told him I found someone to build me what I need. He said we can't afford it. I told him it's not "we," it's "me" and the chickens are financing it through egg sales. He said any more coops will be an eyesore on our land and he won't tolerate it.

He did put the sides on my newest coop but then stopped all construction when he found my little hen.

He wants me to get down to just 8 breeds.

I am not sure that's possible because I'm attached to each & every one...all of my chickens have names and personalities and stories behind where they came from, etc...and no, I did not mention that I have yet another (new) breed coming in the mail tomorrow...

I told him I'd see about maybe getting rid of three of my large breeds to make room for some of my other bantams & projects.

So I have 1 pair of Blue Wheaten Ameracuanas from Pips&Peeps (hatched in May).

4 Sussex (two Lights, one split for coronation & coronation)--this a breeding quad, 1 roo & 3 laying hens

5 Black Crevecoeur (1 rooster & 4 hens)--all laying now

I also have a very nice 4 place nest box that my FIL built me for my birthday a few years ago. It's been used very lightly because after I remodeled my coop there wasn't room for it and it's been in my tack room ever since. It's very heavy wood with a plastic corrugated/slanted roof.

Anyway, if anyone's interested in the above, just PM me. I don't want to get in trouble for trying to sell things on the non-auction threads--but I figured since I can't ship, I'd start here.