Potato and pasta salad recipes?

[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!

[Asiel]

Congratulations to your daughter and to you. I was going to give you the 3 bean sald recipe I have but SOMEONE beat me to it. I make a lot of potato and pasta salads too, they seem to be a favourite with almost everyone. if you want a fruit salad I make one with almost every fruit I can buy , people really seem to go got that too, it's a real thirst quencher. I chop pieces of different melons, canteloupe, sliced bananas, apples, canned tangerines, strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, sliced kiwi, any fruit that is on the shelf goes in except sometimes I will leave out pineapple as I find a lot of people aren't keen on it for some reason. I don't add too much sugar, just depends on the amount I make. Tasting it will let you know when you have put enough.