Bacon-Feta Potato & Green Bean Salad
My mom doesn’t particularly love to cook, but what’s ironic is the things she cooks really, really well are things that generally make me want to tear my hair out in the kitchen. She’s great at cut-out sugar cookies, whereas I attempt them once every few years at most, but mostly just rely on her to make them.
She’s also great at potato salad. I hope YOU like potato salad, because I went on a little potato salad spree last week, and have several recipes hitting the blog in the next few months. My first trial run was my first time making potato salad in quite awhile, and I was a bit rusty. To the point of frantically e-mailing my Mom: “Are you there? I’m making potato salad. I NEED HELP. How do I boil the potatoes?”
She was in the middle of some project at work, and didn’t answer immediately like I needed her too. If you can’t rely on your mom in a potato salad emergency, who can you rely on in life, really? I’m kidding of course. We all had a good laugh about me spending thousands of dollars on a culinary education and not knowing how to make potato salad. But let’s just say my second run-through of the recipe was better.
Not only better, but so, so good. This Bacon-Feta Potato & Green Bean Salad might not be a traditional potato salad, but perhaps more of a “mixed vegetable salad” with mostly potatoes. And bacon. And tangy crumbled Stella feta cheese. And a super tasty dressing made from Dijon mustard, red wine vinegar, shallots and bacon drippings (because why not?). This salad can be served like a traditional potato salad (made in advance and chilled), or it can also be served warm or at room temperature. Either way, I’ll be making and eating it all summer. I may even give some to my mom, provided she promises to answer all future kitchen emergency e-mails immediately.
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Bacon-Feta Potato & Green Bean Salad
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Daughter; this made my day! Thanks for the kuddos and I hope to be available in the future for the things your culinary school failed to teach you!
Ba ha ha! You should open your own poor-man’s culinary school, for all the gaps in knowledge from the real thing 😉
I almost didn’t look at this recipe, but I’m really glad I did: it sounds absolutely wonderful. Kind of like German potato salad but betta because it has feta… (sorry about that, couldn’t resist). My husband isn’t a fan of bacon, but I could probably get him to eat this.
I think the cooking school of Mom is the best place to learn everything that is really important. I know I learned a lot by watching mine cook when I was a child. The thing I learned that way, and had thoroughly imprinted in my mind was haluska, the Hungarian dumpling noodles.
Hi Susan! I’m so glad you looked at the recipe, too 🙂 It is sort of inspired by German potato salad, you guessed it! But betta, because…feta.
I’m not sure if I mastered the basics of cooking in my Mom’s kitchen, but definitely saw her make potato salad, cut-out cookies, and homemade ice cream lots and lots of times! The halsuka is such a nice memory that you have with your mom!
Hi Lori,
I have about a half-pound of green beans from my own garden.(Thank-you very much) I know I needed to cook them before they go bad. I was thinking I really want potatoes’ not green beans. Well, if I can’t have potatoes maybe I will settle for green bean’s bacon and Feta. I put those three ingredients into my magic laptop and Poof! Up came your recipe. With potatoes too, you can’t imagine my joy. I let you know how it turns out. 🙂
Oh my gosh, GOOD FOR YOU growing those beans yourself! I had a garden years ago, and green beans were the only thing I was decent at growing 😉 I am so glad you found this recipe that includes all of the ingredients you wanted to use. Hope it turns out great!