patty's 1st place potato salad

Name: Patty's 1st Place Potato Salad
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 5 pound(s) potatoes; 6 - eggs hard boiled; 6 - celery ribs; 1 or 2 - carrots grated; 1 - onion; 50 - green olives; ~ 3 cup(s) hellmann's mayonnaise; 3/4 cup(s) parmesan cheese ( secret ingredient ); 1/2 cup(s) mustard spicy brown or deli; - celery salt (to taste); - paprika ( mostly for looks ); - parsley flakes ( mostly for looks)

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Patty Reagan

Syracuse, NY

Updated on Feb 15, 2013

My Potato Salad was entered in a cooking contest In NY and won 1st place. I live in NSB FL now and Everyone seams to like it here too

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Ingredients

5 pounds potatoes
6 - eggs hard boiled
6 - celery ribs
1 or 2 - carrots grated
1 - onion
50 - green olives
~ 3 cups hellmann's mayonnaise
3/4 cup parmesan cheese ( secret ingredient )
1/2 cup mustard spicy brown or deli
- celery salt (to taste)
- paprika ( mostly for looks )
- parsley flakes ( mostly for looks)

How To Make patty's 1st place potato salad

Step 1

Peel and boil the potatoes and boil and peel the eggs the night before to make sure they are cooled ( If the potatoes are warm when you cut them up your salad will be too mushy )

Step 2

The next day...Cut or chop up potatoes in small chunks smaller than bite size and chop up eggs
Step 3

dice celery and and onion very small (especially onion) Great carrots cut each Green Olive in half
Step 4

Mix in the Hellmann's Mayo, Mustard, Parm.cheese and spices Mix all together and chill
Step 5

I put a sliced egg on top and paprika and parsley to decorate and make it look nice Maybe even some grated carrot
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