While I was growing up in rural east-coast Canada, we had a lot of village gatherings. There were many pot luck dinners hosted as fundraisers or to celebrate something - proper Cape Breton hospitality. The whole village pitched in and families brought their favourite dishes: cold roast meats, bread rolls, salads, sweets... and my personal favourite - potato salad!
Ever since I have had a weakness for potato salad, and I always have to make a batch to accompany a barbecue.
Recently the sun shone down upon us and we took advantage of the fine weather with a beach barbecue day with friends.
I brought potato salad.
I usually make my potato salad with chopped up gherkins, but I was out of gherkins and I was trying to use up things in my fridge, so I assembled together this recipe using some Spiggie Courgette Relish by west side company Shetlandeli.
I have to say I am really rather pleased at how well it turned out, and as I used low fat yogurt and lighter-than-light mayonnaise it comes in at only 95 calories per 100 gram serving (for those of us who are counting!).
Course: Main
Servings: 10 servings
Prep Time: 15 minutes
Cook Time: 20 minutes
I am a self taught home cook, feeding my family on the west side of Shetland with as much local produce, flavour and love as I can. I am no expert by any means, but I do enjoy learning and writing about food, flavours and techniques.