Country Style Potato Salad with Fresh Cucumbers
Hi friends! Today I am sharing my recipe for Country Style Potato Salad with Fresh Cucumbers.
Summer Time Means Potato Salad!
Summer is filled with wonderful adventures including belly flops into the pool, leap-frog in the garden and dripping chocolate cones. I can’t remember a summer in my youth that did not involve a big BBQ at my Granny Vega’s with several aunts cooking up wonderful dishes and uncles working the grill for dozens to feed nieces and nephews while listening to my granny give instructions to all of them. And let me tell you, they learned from the best.
My granny was one of the most talented self-taught cooks (chefs) I have ever known. She had no need for a book-shelf full of cookbooks or a Kindle filled to the brim with instructions from Betty Crocker, she cooked with a natural sense of taste and texture and most importantly from the heart. It was fantastic! I would like to think my instinct for tossing together a good meal came from her and that my family and friends enjoy the adventure of Momma’s cooking as much as I loved my granny’s.
Country Style Potato Salad with Fresh Cucumbers
This Country Style Potato Salad with fresh cucumbers is one of my favorite culinary adventures and is sure to please your family and guests. It is filled with fresh vegetables and crunchy dill pickles and does not take long at all to cook and tastes pretty darn good to boot. ( Even my picky husband had a big heaping spoon-full or two.)
Here is the recipe, don’t be bashful, if you love potato salad double the recipe! Enjoy!
If you love this recipe, you will also love our Amish Macaroni Salad!
That looks tasty. I might just have to make this for my husband soon. 🙂
Wow, your potato salad looks fantastic!! I have never heard of using cucumbers in potato salad before, but I can only imagine the wonderful crunch they add.
This looks awesome, Pam! Potato salad is one of those weird meals where I can throw on ingredients I normally don’t like (pickles, cucumber) but together, it tastes fantastic. Thanks for sharing this!
I have not heard of a persian cucumber…can you tell me more about it? I love cucumbers and I love potato salad but have never tasted the two in the same recipe! sounds like you had a close relationship with your grandmother, how wonderful for you. One of mine cooked the best chicken and dumplings I have yet to ever taste…and fresh! My grandpa would walk to the local chicken farm and get the chicken, break its neck and then they plucked the feathers…can you imagine now having time for all of that before you start rolling out your dough? 🙂
oh my goodness, my granny did raise chickens but I never witnessed the harvest, so to speak. Persian cucumbers are in most markets, it is the small ones, about length of your hand and they are usually in a plastic clamshell for protection.
Mmm, dumplings. my favorite. lol
Pam
This looks incredible! Pinned to share! Thank you for sharing your recipe.
This sounds so good! Have never added cucumbers to my potato salad, but your recipe is a must try! Thanks for linking up with Funtastic Friday!