I say potato salad is made of love, potatoes and mayonnaise.

Then my boyfriend knocked the mayonnaise out of my hand as I was about to heap on another cup of it. 

Ingredients:

3 pounds of white or red potatoes

1 whole apple, preferably red.

Half of a small onion

4 stalks of celery

1 teaspoon Dill

1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper

2 T yellow mustard

1 or 2 cups of mayonnaise, depending on how much you like mayo.

Salt and pepper

Cut the potatoes into 3/4” pieces and boil in a pot of salted water for roughly 15-20 minutes, until tender. If you take some tongs and can feel the potato give a little when you squeeze, then it’s done. (If you’ve over boiled the potatoes, soak them in some cold water to stop them from cooking further.)

Cut the apple, celery and onion into 1/2” cubes and place in mixing bowl.

Add desired amount of mayonnaise, mustard, salt, pepper, dill and any other ingredients you like and mix together.

Start adding cooled potatoes to mixture until you reach the consistency desired. If you like thicker potato salad, you can mash some of the potatoes into the mayonnaise mix before you add the rest of the potatoes.

*I think the omission of hard boiled eggs made a good difference in texture, although I usually throw in a bit of sweet pickle relish, this potato salad was just perfect.