And the Secret Ingredient is - Potato Salad!

Ok, so potato salad isn't really an ingredient, but I wanted to narrow the topic. One of the things we all usually agree on when choosing a TV channel is Food Network. And because of our somewhat competitive nature, of course we like "Iron Chef America."
So today, my lovely daughter, who has never ever asked to help in the kitchen, challenged me to a potato salad throw down. Yeah, ok, on Easter Sunday, SG decides that even though she has never made anything more challenging than a toaster waffle, she wants to make potato salad. Sounds fun.
With ham and chicken baking in kitchen stadium, we had not-so Iron Chef SG and Iron Chef Mommy-Moto.


Iron Chef SG

Each of us used Yukon Gold potatoes and boiled eggs. For her sauce, SG used Hellman's mayo, yellow mustard, and a little salt and pepper. For my sauce, I used Miracle Whip, dry mustard, onion salt, pepper, milk and sweet pickle relish. I also diced some carrot into my salad.
Our tasters were Daddy & Grammy. Daddy: he likes mustard. Right off the bat, he went for SG's yellow salad. Grammy: she liked the more "consistent sized pieces" in my salad and also the bite the dry mustard gave the dressing versus the yellow of the processed mustard. So, I guess it was a tie.
Really though, I was very impressed with SG. Her potato salad tasted just like traditional potato salad I have eaten at many family picnics over the years. And, I had a great time in the kitchen with my girl. Hopefully it was the first of many battles in our kitchen stadium.

Alton Brown he's not, but he's our favorite food critic.

From our family to yours: Happy Easter! He is risen!