5 pounds red potatoes, peeled and cut into large cubes
8 hard boiled eggs
1 medium onion, minced
1 medium onion (oooh.. just you wait!)
a few sprigs of cilantro, minced (optional)
Miracle Whip
prepared mustard
salt and pepper

Boil the potatoes until cooked to fork tender. Prepare one onion by mincing and set aside. Peel the other onion and get out your grater noting the smallest grating possible.

Drain the potatoes well, but do not let them cool. Take that grater now and use it on the peeled onion. The smaller the grate, the more onion juice you will be smothering the boiled potatoes in!

WOW what a flavour! Salt and pepper the boiled, onion juice and pulp covered potatoes and stir.

Let cool until you can handle them. Don't forget to taste, it may need more pepper!

Once the potatoes have cooled enough to touch, start slicing them in appropriate sizes to eat. Do the same to the hard boiled eggs. Add the minced onion and, if you chose, the cilantro. Now, take that full jar of Miracle Whip and put a good couple scoops on top of the potatoes and squeeze about 1 tablespoon of mustard on top. Use a rubber spatula or wooden spoon and start mixing! whoooheeeee!

Add more Miracle Whip to make it creamy if you like, but be careful with the mustard, as it is primarily used for colour and only a tad of taste (the mustard is very acidic and can ruin the batch - easy does it!

While you are mixing and adding Miracle Whip and/or mustard, keep tasting. Maybe you prefer more salt or pepper!

This is a wonderful salad as it is, but just imagine what you can do with this base! Add bacon? cheddar cheese? peppers? heck.. corn would be good too! Try more cilantro and some grilled chicken? Your imagination is the only limitation!!

And don't worry, the grating of the onion on top of the potatoes adds only a lovely hint of taste compared to the smell emitted and the tears evoked. HAPPY EATING!

Submitted by: Thea Cederberg