family recipe

I've been wanting to make a family tradition and recipe that my Grandma Harriett started years ago...The best potato salad you've ever had. And we all get to partake because my mom has carried on the tradition of making it once or twice a year for family get togethers: usually Easter and mid to late summer, like the Fourth or Labor Day.

Well, I had a special hankering, so I made it, even though I've never made it. I think the years of watching mom put it together made me a bonafide pro. Mom always makes a ton (around twenty pounds) because the entire family loves it and eats it like its going out of style. Then she sends some home with each one and makes sure her two brothers get their own special delivery as well. But I made a small batch:

5 lbs. red potatoes

8 slices of bacon

1 med. onion diced

1 green pepper diced (which I omitted for sake of time)

8 dill pickles diced

4 celery stalks diced

1 doz boiled eggs quartered

3/4 cup Helman's

salt to taste

What makes it time consuming is that you have to blot all the wet items: potatoes, onion and pickle so that the salad doesn't get runny and break down after a couple of days...since, of course you make enough for leftovers for a week!