Potato and pasta salad recipes?

[pomtzu]

Yes - everything was homemade - by us older ladies - aunts, grandmothers, adult cousins. Only the cake was storebought, and it was awesome too.
There were about 50 people to feed throughout the celebration which started right after noon, with people coming and going thruout the day, and it was 10 p.m. when we started cleaning up. A long, but fun day, for sure. I need to get the stuffed mushroom recipe too - it was delicious. I'll give you the bean recipe if you want to use it.

Three bean salad

1 can (15oz) drained cut green beans
" " drained cut wax beans (yellow beans)
" " drained kidney beans (dark or light)
1 green bell pepper chopped
1 small onion chopped
1/2 teaspoon celery seed
1/2 teaspoon black pepper
3/4 cup sugar
1/3 cup salad oil
2/3 cup cider vinegar
Place beans, pepper and onion in bowl. Mix seasonings, oil and vinegar. Pour over bean mixture and marinate over night in fridge. Serve cold.

You can even throw in some other things not in the recipe. I like some fresh cut mushroom, and small cheese cubes of any kind in it too. If you find it too "vinergy" for your taste, just add a tad bit more sugar.

If I'm making it for a good sized gathering, I sometimes double the recipe too.

Congrats to your daughter - and you too. The kids do the work, but the parents do the prodding! And it really pays off in the end.

[caseysmom]

Thanks both of the repices sound great.

Yeah this year's grad wasn't so bad, my daughter that graduated last year I felt like I deserved a metal!

[Karen]

Pasta salad has always been a "no recipe, just add as you go" sort of affair around these parts. Boil a bunch of pasta, rinse and cool. Dump in a bowl. Decide whether you want to use mayo or salad dressing, then add stuff you like. Ham, eggs, olives, peppers, cucumbers, chopped tomatoes ... or grapge tomatoes ... and throw in some chopped onions, parsley, basil - you know, mix and match until it tastes right!

[caseysmom]

Yeah I pretty much do the same thing, just looking for ideas.

[Bonny]

Old-Fashioned Potato Salad

5 medium potatoes 3/4 mayonnaise
4 eggs, hard-boiled 1 Tbs. yellow mustard
1 medum onion, diced 1 1/4 tsp. salt
2 ribs celery, diced 1/4 tsp. pepper
2 Tbs. vinegar

Boil potatoes with jackets on until tender; drain & set aside to cool. Peel potatoes & cut in half lengthwise, then slice. Peel & chop eggs. Combine potatoes, eggs, onion & celery in large bowl. Mix together remaining ingredients & pour over potato mixture; stir gently. Refrigerate for 2 or 3 hours to blend flavors.


A dessert or salad

Seedless Red Grapes ( about 4-5 cups grapes destemed, & washed)
16 oz. container of real sour cream
mix sugar into sour cream start with a half cup & add more to give the sour cream a sweet taste then add a 1/4 teaspoon of almond extract to the sweetened sour cream mixture. Mix the grapes into the sweetened almond sweetened sour cream mixture. Makes for a cool tasting dessert or salad & is easy to put together.

[Bonny]

Old-Fashioned Potato Salad. The vinegar, mayonnaise, mustard, salt, & pepper get mixed together in a separate bowl & then put in with the potatoes, eggs, onion, & celery. I had a nice spaced column but it ran together on me.

[shais_mom]

http://www.hendricksons.com/
I love this for pasta salad.
I use corkscrew pasta - add olives - tomatoes- and turkey pepporoni. <3!