A little while back, I wrote about a weekend feast of pork ribs and red-skinned potato salad.

One blog reader requested the recipe for my family’s all-time favorite potato salad, and I am now prepared to offer exact measurements for all the ingredients.

My sister came through with the measurements this morning, which is appropriate because she’s the one who started this whole potato salad thing, in a roundabout way.

When she was in college, Sis dated a chef who ended up being a real jerk. But we did get this recipe out of him before they broke up, so you see something positive comes out of every relationship. Gee, I hope that guy isn’t reading my blog.

The secret to this potato salad, I believe, is the bacon. We all know that bacon makes just about everything taste better.

I’ll attach the recipe below. As with any potato salad, this one tastes a lot better after it has had a chance to sit for a few hours or overnight.

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If you feel as groggy as I do on this rainy Monday, perhaps you’d just like to stare longingly at this lovely piece of food porn sent in by faithful blog reader Deb.

Deb promised to make something this weekend and send me a picture of it for my Fridge Magnet Flickr page, which has lately been neglected. If you’ve got any great food pics, e-mail them to me at lindsey.nair@roanoke.com or join my Flickr group.

This is rigatoni with chicken sausage and Parmesan cheese, served with a salad of asparagus, cherry tomatoes, crispy prosciutto, fresh basil and a lemon vinaigrette. That salad makes me drool.

I passed up the barbecued chicken this weekend in favor of barbecued country-style pork ribs. I’ve lately been working on perfecting my country-style rib recipe and I think I’m there. One of my favorite things about this dish is the affordability. I fed about 10 friends on Saturday night with $15 worth of ribs, and nobody went hungry.

I’ll attach my recipe below. Someone asked for my red-skinned potato salad recipe, but I need to work on the ratios of ingredients. I’ll pin that down and post that recipe later.

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Well, I finally picked a perfect day to take a vacation day — it’s warm, sunny and beautiful. Almost too hot to do all the yard work I’m getting ready to start, but beggars can’t be choosers.
I did check my voicemail at work and wanted to pass along that the health department folks called me back today. First thing Monday I’ll share with you their take on this glove issue.
Thanks to everyone for chiming in on the topic. It seems to be a perfect item for discussion — just about everyone has had a new and valid point to raise. Cheers to that!
This weekend, I plan to make my family’s favorite red-skinned potato salad, complete with green vidalias and fresh eggs I bought on the market. Paired with some barbecued chicken and homemade cole slaw, I think we’ll have a suitable spring feast.
If I’m lucky, maybe I’ll find some morels when I go out hunting on Sunday. It may be too late in the season but I’m hoping all the rain showers and these days of warm sun will still have them popping up on the forest floor. Cross your fingers!
Have a great weekend!