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Magazine Mondays: Happy Victoria Day!
Date: May. 24th 2010
Category: Salads and Dressings, Magazine Mondays
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Happy Victoria Day to all my fellow Canadians!
Even though the first day of summer is still roughly a month away, for me, Victoria Day has always been the unofficial beginning of summer.
Barbecue season is underway, my strawberry plants are on the verge of yielding some sweet berries and I can now officially wear white pants without incurring the ire of the fashion police!
While we use the barbecue virtually year round at our house, for many Canadians Victoria Day is the first opportunity of the year to have a big barbecue.
If there’s one thing that I love at a barbecue, it’s potato salad. Much like pancakes, I’ve probably tried a thousand recipes for potato salad. And I believe I’ve loved every one!
For our Victoria Day celebration, I tried a recipe from the July 2005 issue of Canadian Living: Warm Potato Salad. The only change I made was to omit the green bell pepper, which never sits well with me for some reason.
It was a lovely salad and a perfect accompaniment to our meal.
This is my entry for this week’s Magazine Mondays. And here are some other entries to intrigue you:
Tina of Life in the Slow Lane at Squirrel Head Manor made Cherry Tomato and Prosciutto Focaccia.
Brenda from Brenda’s Canadian Kitchen made New York-Style Crumb Cake.
Carla from RecipeAddict made Braised Chicken Stew (Pollo Guisado) from the April 2010 issue of Everyday with Rachel Ray and Risotto with Spring Greens from the June 2009 issue of Oprah magazine.
I wanted to end off by sharing a delicious treat made by a family member. I have lots of little cousins and they’re all sweet but my “little” cousin J (she’s 21), made this delicious cheesecake for our family barbecue. So you can see the baking gene runs in the family. So sweet!
There won’t be a Magazine Mondays next week (May 31st) so we’ll see you in a few weeks.
Have a great week, everyone!
Ciao!
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05/24/10 at 2:03 pm
Well, what can I say? You just cannot beat Canadian Living recipes at all! I should know - I make enough of them!
05/24/10 at 2:11 pm
Happy Victoria Day! love me some Canadian Living!!! great eats!
05/24/10 at 2:20 pm
Happy Victoria Day from a Texan! My best friend is Canadian, that’s the only reason I’ve even heard of it!
05/24/10 at 2:45 pm
Ooo! That potato salad looks awesome, and the recipe looks intriguing! No mayo? I’m totally there.
Ditto about the green peppers, they don’t sit well and don’t add much flavor. Why keep ‘em around? Have you ever tried throwing in some pimentos for a pop of color? Or maybe some corn?
As soon as it gets warm around here, California has decided switch to fall without a summer, I’m coming to have to make this. Or maybe I won’t wait…hmm….
05/25/10 at 2:19 am
these fresh rasberries looks so tasty!
05/25/10 at 6:07 am
Mayo-less potato salad is my favorite and perfect for barbecues for that reason as well. Well the fresh raspberries are great in my book any day.
Happy Victoria Day
Penelope
ps: hadn’t wondered about the wardrobe police and white pants in years! ha! great line.
05/25/10 at 7:36 am
I may have to subscribe to Canadian Living. Love warm potato salads. Could do raptures over that cheesecake also.
05/26/10 at 4:35 am
Happy Victoria Day to you! What a way to kick off the summer from that scrumptious potato salad to that delicious cheesecake. Premonitions of a wonderful next few months.
05/27/10 at 3:53 am
Happy Victoria Day… and yay for another potato salad! Off to check the link. How sweet of your ‘little’ cousin to make such a gorgeous cheesecake! It’s purty!!