{"id":1161,"date":"2021-03-19T20:54:05","date_gmt":"2021-03-20T03:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/?p=1161"},"modified":"2021-09-12T14:53:26","modified_gmt":"2021-09-12T21:53:26","slug":"improv-potato-salad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/2021\/03\/19\/improv-potato-salad\/","title":{"rendered":"Improv Potato Salad"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"843\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/20210319_195340-1024x843.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1162\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/20210319_195340-1024x843.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/20210319_195340-300x247.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/20210319_195340-768x633.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/20210319_195340.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m not really into celebrating St. Patrick&#8217;s Day. But as it happened I made corned beef on the 17th this year. I didn&#8217;t brine the brisket myself, as in <a href=\"https:\/\/m.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZRcBmNYTpNY\">this video<\/a>, but I followed the cooking instructions and it came out good, not too salty as the store-bought ones are sometimes guilty of. My only complaint was the one I bought had a fat cap so thick that it was probably a quarter of the weight. Meh. I trimmed and sliced the leftover meat and made <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/2021\/01\/29\/reuben-sandwiches\/\">Reubens<\/a> for dinner this evening. Yummmy!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I had a bowl full of leftover simmered vegetables (potatoes, carrots, and cabbage) from making the corned beef. I chopped them up and made a quick dressing:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Basic Potato Salad<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dressing for 2 lbs red potatoes, 3 carrots, 1\/4 head cabbage, simmered in seasoned liquid until just tender and then diced large:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>1\/4-1\/3 cup mayonnaise<\/li><li>Squirt mustard<\/li><li>Juice from 1 small lemon<\/li><li>2-3 Tbsp dill pickle relish<\/li><li>Sliced green onions<\/li><li>Finely chopped celery stalk\/leaves (this is a great way to use up those leafy core pieces!)<\/li><li>1\/2 tsp coriander<\/li><li>1\/2 tsp sugar, more to taste (or omit if you have sweet relish)<\/li><li>Salt and pepper to taste (start with 1 tsp salt)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Combine dressing ingredients in a large bowl, then very gently fold in the potatoes, carrots, and cabbage. Chill 1 hour to blend the flavors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a bowl full of leftover potatoes, carrots, and cabbage from making corned beef, so I chopped them up and made a quick dressing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1162,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[122,84,121,78,67],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1161"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1528,"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161\/revisions\/1528"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}