Potato & Bacon Salad with Easy As Homemade Mayo

21 Thursday Jan 2016

Posted by Wendy Hay in All recipes, Sides and Salads

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dairy-free, gluten free, Grain Free, homemade mayonnaise, light tasting olive oil, mayonnaise, paleo, paleo mayonnaise, Potato, Potato salad, Primal, Resistant Starch, sweet potatoes

I’ve posted a potato salad in the past. Made with Easy As Homemade Mayo and flavoured with mustard. I also touched on how cooked and cooled potatoes are a source of resistant starch which is great for feeding your good gut bugs. Well, here is another take on this delicious salad using a couple of my favourite ingredients, bacon and shallots.

There are some who shun potatoes, perhaps finding them a too carby, or have an intolerance and to be honest, I don’t recommend eating this salad every night either. But as a side to a perfectly cooked juicy steak, I think that Potato & Bacon Salad is pretty hard to beat.

Here is how easy it is…

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Easy As Homemade Mayonnaise

05 Friday Sep 2014

Posted by Wendy Hay in All recipes, Sauces

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aioli, basil mayo, clean eating, dairy-free, easy recipe, Eggs, gluten free, Grain Free, light tasting olive oil, mayonnaise, mustard mayo, Primal, sauce

They say a picture says a thousand words, but some things just end up looking like what they are and really don’t add too much art, life or the universe. Trying to make a pot of Homemade Mayo look anything other than a pot of whitish sauce really doesn’t work. My case in point is my Hollandaise Sauce. See a small bowl of yellow sauce.

So don’t blame me for this but here you go, a jar of white mayo – tastes delish though!

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Potato Salad with Easy As Homemade Mayonnaise

05 Friday Sep 2014

Posted by Wendy Hay in All recipes, Sides and Salads

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dairy-free, gluten free, Grain Free, homemade mayonnaise, light tasting olive oil, mayonnaise, paleo, Potato, Potato salad, Primal, Resistant Starch, sweet potatoes

When I started primal/paleo eating November 2013 I stopped eating potatoes – well I switched to sweet potatoes. Now don’t get me wrong I love sweet potatoes so it was no hardship. However there is a family dish that I generally make during the summer and always make on Christmas Day (NZ Christmas is in the summer!), Potato Salad. So being new to the lifestyle and with the whole family embracing primal eating, that ended up being Sweet Potato Salad – a different dish entirely.

Then there was the mayonnaise – store bought full of revolting seed oil and my attempts at homemade were really not good.

A couple of things have happened since then.

I learned about the gut feeding qualities of resistant starch, I discovered that cooked and cooled potatoes fall into this group of starches. The second thing was I found that the key to making homemade mayonnaise that tasted yummy was to use a light tasting olive oil.

It did take me a while to click into these two separate discoveries, and think Potato Salad is on the menu again!! It’s now Spring in New Zealand and time to start thinking about outdoor cooking and cold salads.

So here is my so simple it’s silly, Potato Salad – I hope you enjoy it as much as my family does.