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August 25, 2016

Steakhouse salad, All American potato salad, German potato salad

By Melanie Behrens

Potatoes are truly wonderful. You can cook them so many different ways and they pick up the flavor of everything in the recipe. Here are three kinds of potato salad. Surely you will enjoy at least one of them.
Steakhouse salad
3 lbs. small red potatoes (about 12), cut into 1-in. chunks
1/2 C water
1/2 C...

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