{"id":848,"date":"2021-05-31T21:27:45","date_gmt":"2021-06-01T02:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homesteadinginthecity.kleinmartin.com\/?p=848"},"modified":"2021-05-31T21:36:34","modified_gmt":"2021-06-01T02:36:34","slug":"my-moms-potato-salad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/homesteadinginthecity.kleinmartin.com\/?p=848","title":{"rendered":"My Mom’s Potato Salad"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

When my mom was a young mother in the 50\u2019s, she spent a lot of time cooking and making up recipes. One of her meals was a potato salad that was a little different from the common one of the time, and a steak marinade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The potato salad? At a grill out, I made a huge batch of it. One of the guests who tried it then brought *every new guest* over to it telling them to eat it, because it was so good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I don\u2019t think it\u2019s *that* good, but it is extremely tasty. It\u2019s a kind of bland plain 50\u2019s potato salad (no pickles, no celery, no mustard, yes eggs) with Bacon added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Y\u2019see, my mom had married a kid of German descent, and her Mother in Law made the traditional hot potato salad that has bacon in it.  My mom looked at it and said \u2018that would be good in plain potato salad\u2019. And it is. I mean, how could it not be? So, it\u2019s a plain, fatty potato salad with bacon. And eggs. Yeah. You eat it because it\u2019s fatty. Mmmmmmm, fat\u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All summer long, she\u2019d make her steak and this potato salad, and even though she died a few years ago, I get to feel like we are home again when I make them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


I recently was asked if I\u2019d be willing to share my mom\u2019s steak marinade, and since I was making it for today anyway, I figured why not. And then I can\u2019t picture the steak without this salad, so you have both! And like that woman who had her fudge recipe on her tombstone for all to enjoy, I know my mom would love to live on in other people\u2019s cooking. Even if they change it to fit their tastes, like she changed recipes to fit her. So go ahead, add the pickle and celery and whatever else you think would work. I have actually in the past *drained the bacon grease* into the salad as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You did good, mom. <3 you and miss you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Go here for Pia\u2019s Steak.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For this you need<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"
I use my Instant Pot and do my potatoes and eggs at the same time. Makes it harder to get salt in the potatoes, but harder to mess up.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

4 cups of potatoes- salted, boiled, cooled, diced<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2 hard boiled eggs- boiled, peeled, and diced (I do both of these in the instant pot. These were small so they got 7 minutes. I then peeled then, diced them and salted them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1 finely chopped onion (about 1 cup of onion.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1 tsp salt<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00bd teaspoon black pepper<\/p>\n\n\n\n

5 sliced cooked diced bacon (I used three extra thick slices and drained them this time)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

~1 cup mayo (add more if you like it gooey. I do.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And the proof this dates to the 1950\u2019s, after all the above is mixed well, paprika! It\u2019s not just to decorate it. A nice hot paprika adds nice flavor to it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And there you have it.
<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"
Pia’s steak, her potato salad and sauteed spinach. Dinner was silent because no one wanted to stop eating…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When my mom was a young mother in the 50\u2019s, she spent a lot of time cooking and making up recipes. One of her meals was a potato salad that was a little different from the common one of the time, and a steak marinade. The potato salad? At a grill out, I made a … Continue reading My Mom’s Potato Salad<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":863,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"amazonpipp_noncename":"","amazon-product-isactive":"","amazon-product-single-asin":"","amazon-product-content-location":"1","amazon-product-content-hook-override":"2","amazon-product-excerpt-hook-override":"2","amazon-product-singular-only":"","amazon-product-amazon-desc":"","amazon-product-show-gallery":"","amazon-product-show-features":"","amazon-product-newwindow":"2","amazon-product-show-list-price":"","amazon-product-show-used-price":"","amazon-product-show-saved-amt":"","amazon-product-timestamp":"","amazon-product-new-title":"","amazon-product-use-cartURL":"","amazon_featured_post_meta_key":"","_amazon_featured_alt":"","amazon-product-template":"default","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20,19,174,125,1],"tags":[172,170,171],"class_list":["post-848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eggs","category-food","category-pia","category-scratch-cooking","category-uncategorized","tag-bacon","tag-potato","tag-potato-salad"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5HEA6-dG","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1139,"url":"https:\/\/homesteadinginthecity.kleinmartin.com\/?p=1139","url_meta":{"origin":848,"position":0},"title":"What we ate: May","author":"Gina Kleinmartin","date":"June 1, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"May Flautas Elk liver with bacon and onions Potato aspargus pan Ceci tangine Brats and brabent potatoes and redcabbage and cake Ful Mac and cheesesteak Sushi queen--- all you can eat sushi Artichoke cheese for lunches Pinto bean burgers Tabaka Macedonian beans\/ vegan sausage and peppers Mom chicken sandwich Ceci\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1189,"url":"https:\/\/homesteadinginthecity.kleinmartin.com\/?p=1189","url_meta":{"origin":848,"position":1},"title":"Foods we ate in September","author":"Gina Kleinmartin","date":"October 3, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"September Hot dogs and custard for my mom\u2019s birthday Rubber chicken ( I needed leftover chicken for another dish) salt potatoes, Rice with perilla leaves (this dish needed the cooked chicken) Hash and eggs Shrimp crepes Greek baked fish Bacon cheeseburger dip Ful Galvan salad ( a salad he made\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"random food\"","block_context":{"text":"random food","link":"https:\/\/homesteadinginthecity.kleinmartin.com\/?tag=random-food"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":865,"url":"https:\/\/homesteadinginthecity.kleinmartin.com\/?p=865","url_meta":{"origin":848,"position":2},"title":"Mom’s Steak.","author":"Gina Kleinmartin","date":"May 31, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"When my mom was a young mother in the 50\u2019s, she spent a lot of time cooking and making up recipes. One of her meals was a potato salad that was a little different from the common one of the time, and a steak marinade. Oh, her steak. Her steak\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Food"","block_context":{"text":"Food","link":"https:\/\/homesteadinginthecity.kleinmartin.com\/?cat=19"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/homesteadinginthecity.kleinmartin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/100_1935-scaled.jpg?fit=1200%2C679&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/homesteadinginthecity.kleinmartin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/100_1935-scaled.jpg?fit=1200%2C679&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/homesteadinginthecity.kleinmartin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/100_1935-scaled.jpg?fit=1200%2C679&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/homesteadinginthecity.kleinmartin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/100_1935-scaled.jpg?fit=1200%2C679&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/homesteadinginthecity.kleinmartin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/100_1935-scaled.jpg?fit=1200%2C679&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":911,"url":"https:\/\/homesteadinginthecity.kleinmartin.com\/?p=911","url_meta":{"origin":848,"position":3},"title":"Quarantine meals- foods we ate before we went shopping (we were too stocked)","author":"Gina Kleinmartin","date":"August 6, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Over the shut down, we managed to not go shopping for 5 months. Yes. Five months. No deliveries, no curbside, no groceries at all. For humans at least, we did get the pup more food and we did pick up out medicine at the pharmacy. Now, we had just hit\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Baking"","block_context":{"text":"Baking","link":"https:\/\/homesteadinginthecity.kleinmartin.com\/?cat=2"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1123,"url":"https:\/\/homesteadinginthecity.kleinmartin.com\/?p=1123","url_meta":{"origin":848,"position":4},"title":"Info dump of dinners we ate. Boring post. Willing to share recipes.","author":"Gina Kleinmartin","date":"May 2, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"April Leftover pizza for lunch Ham bone soup with cornbread Leftover soup for lunch Stuffed Grape leaves and greek ceci Black bean splat burgers Cherita fingers Beans de jonge Pizza cheap Pasta and sauce Pinto bean burgers Refried bean tostadas Ham cutlets Dinner plate hummus- hummus topped with extras served\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1170,"url":"https:\/\/homesteadinginthecity.kleinmartin.com\/?p=1170","url_meta":{"origin":848,"position":5},"title":"Foods we ate in August","author":"Gina Kleinmartin","date":"September 6, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Pasta alla lions headBLTEggs in purgatory (tomatoes)MujadaraBerry salad and biscuitsFrench style steak with tomato salad and corn on the cobPoppersChili con ColoradoBaked ceciComfort lentilsFulGreek style beansMaple almond salmon with corn on the cobGreek style burgerBlacj bean burgersUme tofu saladSom tom saladLentil saladPasta primaveraFried halloumi sandwiches with broccoli slawUtica greens dinnerBlack\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"random food\"","block_context":{"text":"random food","link":"https:\/\/homesteadinginthecity.kleinmartin.com\/?tag=random-food"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/homesteadinginthecity.kleinmartin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/100_1935-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1448&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/homesteadinginthecity.kleinmartin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/homesteadinginthecity.kleinmartin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/homesteadinginthecity.kleinmartin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homesteadinginthecity.kleinmartin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homesteadinginthecity.kleinmartin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=848"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/homesteadinginthecity.kleinmartin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":868,"href":"https:\/\/homesteadinginthecity.kleinmartin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848\/revisions\/868"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homesteadinginthecity.kleinmartin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/homesteadinginthecity.kleinmartin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homesteadinginthecity.kleinmartin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homesteadinginthecity.kleinmartin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}