[london.food] Potato salad (was Re: Cold snack food)

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From: Roger Burton West
Subject: [london.food] Potato salad (was Re: Cold snack food)
Date: 20:19 on 20 Jun 2004
On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 11:45:51PM +0100, Roger Burton West wrote:
>I'm having some friends over this coming weekend, and while the
>long-range forecast promises thunder and lightning in London I don't
>want to be committed to serving hot food if it's as warm as it was
>today. What are some thoughts on good cold dishes that are easy to
>prepare? (Bearing in mind I'm very lazy.)

Since I ended up not hosting but travelling across London, I wimped out
and made Deadly Attack Potato Salad. Very simple: a load of potatoes (I 
think I had about 20 new potatoes this time), chopped into roughly 
half-inch blocks and then boiled for ten minutes; while that's 
happening, peel and chop a head of garlic medium-coarse* into some 
decent-sized glops of mayonnaise and stirred around a bit. Drain
potatoes, put into tubs, stir in garlicky mayonnaise, stir in extra
mayonnaise as necessary. It smells a lot more vicious than it tastes,
but was pronounced a success.

* so that there are some crunchy bits in the final dish - this takes the
place of the small amount of raw onion that one might otherwise consider
adding.

R

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