Almost everyone loves potato salad; as a child it was a way of using up left over potatoes in the summer to accompany salad and it would have just been home-grown cold boiled potatoes, cut into cubes and covered with salad cream, Heinz salad cream in our house. We never had mayonnaise – whether it was too expensive to buy already made, or whether it wasn’t on the shelves of the shops my mum went to, or whether my parents didn’t like it… it just never featured in our kitchen or on our plates.
I’m not sure where or when I first had mayonnaise but that’s what I prefer now; my husband however still likes salad cream best! So when I make potato salad, I make two bowls, salad cream for him and mayonnaise for me, usually with some plain yoghurt added. The potato salad I make now is different in another way from what we had as children, and the difference came about after my first visit to the USA many, many years ago.
I went to America to stay with my friend and she took me up into the Cascade Mountains to a cabin where there was a whole gang of her friends; we set to make dinner and I helped out with the potato salad and to my amazement there were lots of extra things added to it, including finely chopped onion,finely chopped gherkin and hard-boiled eggs divided into eight pieces… and a lot more beside which I don’t now remember. It made a great impact on me which considering potato salad is such a humble and ordinary dish is surprising, I guess.
Now whenever I make potato salad I remember the cabin in the Cascade mountains, and the fun we had, and I always put lots of other things in the dish as well as mayonnaise and potatoes!
Lois Elsden 
My wife makes macaroni salad in the summer and I love it. It has all the same ingredients as potato salad except the eggs. You cook the pasta first and eat it cold. This time she used bow tie pasta and it was great. You’ve gotta try it.
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I love pasta salad and it’s my daughter’s favourite; she likes it with tuna and sweetcorn as well! Does your wife use mayo?
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My wife uses whipped dressing instead of mayo. She also uses red peppers,onion.radishes and celery.For some reason we don’t use tuna but that would be ok. The salads are my favorite part of summer. Yum.
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great combination – I bet it looks so enticing with the red from the peppers and radishes and green celery!
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Just like an acid trip that you can eat. Oh to be a hippy again.
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I’ve never quite thought of it in that way, David !! 😉
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