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Thursday, October 2, 2008 - The BEST Potato Salad EVER!!!!!!

Posted in homeschool-memoirs-2008-09

This week's theme is about our favorite snack foods. I thought I would write down what everyone likes.....

Trinity's favorite snacks include:

1. Chex Mix
2. Handi Snacks cheese and bread sticks
3.garlic bread ( that she makes for all of us)
4 s'mores
5 Popcorn home made with parmesan cheese, butter and adobo

Pop 1 cup of popcorn kernels in an air popper.
placed popped corn into a brown double paper bag
( this needs 2 sets of hands)
quickly, white it is still hot, pour desired amount of melted butter into the bag, while the other person shakes it like crazy.
DO the same with about 1/4 cup of grated parmesan cheese topping ( the kind you get on the shelf, not the cooler at the store)
then do it again with 1-2 tablespoons of adobo spice (garlic powder and salt will do, if you don't have adobo

Harley's favorite snack foods

1 Potato chips
2.apples
3 pears
4. mandarin oranges ( canned)
5.bananas

Rowan's favorite snacks

1. Garlic bread
2.apples
3.grapes
4.celery with (!) jelly(?) ( this is what he said, but I have never personally witnessed this!)
5.the " Secret Salad"- this consists of celery, carrots and dill pickles- on a tray.

My husband's favorite snacks:

1. Pepper Jack cheese and Triscuits.
2. Popcorn with salt and LOTS of cracked pepper
3.honeydew melon
4.Fruit salad
5.My great grandmother's potato salad- the best kind there ever was! Make this and I swear- it will disappear- everyone loves it!

Great Grandma Bates' Potato Salad

10 medium potatoes, boiled and diced
12 eggs, hard-boiled and chopped
4 stalks celery
1 medium onion, diced
1 tablespoon prepared mustard
2/3 cup moyonaise ( not sweet)
1/3 cup chopped hamberger dill slices
1/3 cup chopped dill spears
salt and pepper to taste
paprika ( optional) for garnish

1.    combine ingredients in a large bowl.

2.    Stir until well blended.

3.    chill or serve at room temp ( someone is always eating it before it it hits the fridge!)

My favorite snacks:

1. cottage cheese and fruit
2.popcorn- with nothing or with anything- love popcorn.
3.baked apples

Nancy's Baked Apples

1 or more medium sized apples- of a tangy/semi-tart variety- I like Cortlands for this, but Jonathans and granny smiths work well too.

cinnamon
ground cloves
sweetener, such as sugar, brown sugar, honey, or maple syrup
butter
water

Preheat oven to 350
Cut the " lid" off of the apples, set aside. Using a melon baller, potato peeler or similar instrument, scoop out the cores. Place about 1 teaspoon of butter in the hole. Sprinkle cinnamon, cloves and sweetener ( to taste) into the hole. put about 1/2 to 1 inch of water into a 9x13 or 8x8 baking pan depending on how many you make. place the apples inside and the lids back on the apples. Cover with foil and bake for at least 20 minutes.....When the smell has spread throughout your home, they are close to done- check by taking the lid off of one apple and inserting a knife in the center. If it goes in easily, the apples are done.

Note- sometimes they fall apart if they cook too long- but I actually think they taste VERY good this way:)