Cooking-all about potato salad, Rachel Ray and what? Me on TV?

Potato Salad

Indeed I did love to prepare meals for my meat=and-potatoes husband.  He's been gone for six years now and in the interim I have tentatively prepared meals that husband would never eat but that I love.

To include potato salad, a home-made recipe I use although there are limitations.

First, the type of potatoes.  I use Russet baking potatoes as they tend to absorb my zesty Italian dressing well, more on this later.  One can use red potatoes, which turn out with a little bit more of a bite than I like.  Regular white potatoes work well.

I cannot stand potato salad with potatoes that are not fully cooked through.  Although I emphasize, the potato should not be so cooked through that it turns into a mashed potato.

Then I boil the russet potatoes until a fork pierces a potato piece gently but does not break it apart.  At that point I generously drizzle some zesty Italian dressing on the cooked potatoes and let it soak in for about a half an hour.

At this point the ingredients for the potato salad are thrown in.  It IS called a "salad" and thus the other items to include with the potatoes are personal.  I love cucumbers sliced and diced added to my potato salad.  Celery, of course, radishes make a good addition, onions and sliced hard-boiled egg, about three.

I then add some mayo and a little bit of grainy mustard.  Need lots of salt and pepper, perhaps some dashes of paprika.  One spice one simply must have with potato salad is celery seed.  Celery seed makes potato salad what it is.

I do splash on some seasoned salt but real cooks, so I learn, don't use this so forget I said anything about it.

Potato salad tastes best when it sits for one day in the fridge.
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Rachel Ray....My Favorite Daytime Diva

Indeed I do watch Rachel Ray's daily show on CBS at 3pm.  Rachel is a fairly famous cook who began her career on Food Network and now is famous for all sorts of things, including dog food, which my dog loves.

Ray is a great hostess, great at leading the conversation yet no dominating and over-powering the guest.  Her guests are not all chefs, I emphasize.  She has fashion designers, doctors, fellow actors....all sorts that keep me intrigued. 

But yes, Ray does cook at least one dish on her show and folks, Rachel would never, not ever, make my potato salad above.  Because when Rachel Ray cooks she doesn't bother with such as measuring cups and spoons.  She pours required spices into the palms of her hands then dumps it into the dish being created.

However, I insert here, I would never, well probably never, cook much of anything Ray prepares.  For sure what she cooks up looks, and probably is, delicious. But Rachel puts so many ingredients into most of her creations that my head spins.  As I stated upthread, I am used to making simple things from my many years with my husband. 

But she teaches me a lot as I watch her enthusiasm as she throws another handful of seasoning into her dish.

Check out her show.  She entertains and cooks and does both very well.

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Going on  Worst Cooks in America

I do think I would be a good candidate for Food Network's "Worst Cooks in America".  Understand here that the so-called worst cooks in America are not, literally, the worst cooks in America.  Oh for sure they are not great cooks although the show's scripting has them being way worst than they really are.

They are mostly folks like myself, people who kind of enjoy cooking and want to know how to make tasty dishes adjusted to their own tastes.  I would be an old lady, widowed and used to preparing for a meat-and-potatoes guy for many years and now wanting to learn how to make tastefully prepared dishes for myself that my husband, may he rest in peace, would never touch.

Put on some nice lipstick, good makeup, give me a good hairstyle and I fit the profile of many senior woman across the fruited plains.

Stay with me.  I am going to check it out and hey, do not forget, I am also a food Blogger.
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