Home Grown New Potato Salad

 There is plenty coming in from the garden at the moment, mangetout and sugar snap peas, plus the traditional garden pea(though these don't often get cooked, they are just lovely to pod and eat as they are. We've even had the first boiling of broad beans. Some people are already getting courgettes in, though ours are far too tiny to eat.

   One garden product that has surpassed everything else this year is the humble potato. We grew Lady Crystal and Charlottes this year and they are abundant and very tasty, helped by the dry weather keeping off the blight I think.

  This is my mother's recipe for potato salad, it's a great way of using up new potatoes if you have a heavy crop as you simply boil up double the amount for a big dinner, leave half to cool and they become your potato salad for the next day.

Potato Salad mostly made from garden produce

Ingredients:

1lb of new potatoes, boiled until firm but not mushy

1 pickled gherkin, or if you don't like pickled things about 1/4 of a cucumber.

3 medium sized spring onions

2 tbs of mayonaise of choice


Chop up the potatoes into 1 cm cubes
Cut up the gherkin into little chunks about 0.5cm
Slice the spring onions into small rings
Put all the ingredients into a bowl and mix thouroughly, add more mayo if there isn't enough
Dust with paprika to make it look pretty and serve.

perfect with schnitzels and garden salad