Memorial Day

I started this post prior to Memorial Day, but then we left to go camping and never posted it.  So, I'm revising it...

Memorial Day is a time to honor our fallen soldiers, while our family also pays respects for those serving.  Two of my nephews are veterans, and we're quite thankful they made it back to us.

Every year we spend our Memorial Day Weekend at the Blues and Cajun Festival where I cook up a storm and bring all the goodness with us while we hang with friends and listen to some great music.  This year, we decided to do something a bit different and went camping at Lake Isabella.  This just meant that I needed to get busy cooking a little sooner than normal.  

I prepped all the food for the week from hot dogs, buns, and condiments, to snacks and veggies, to the prepping everything needed for tacos.  With the lettuce shredded, onions, chopped, and veggie meat cooked, I made hummus from scratch and posted that recipe.  Then I made my famous potato salad. Mind you, we're not fans of sweet potato salad, so if that's what you're looking for, this is not the recipe for you.  This recipe is just mmm-mmm delicious.  Not to toot my own horn, but I haven't met anyone that doesn't like it.  It seems that I can never make enough of it.  If I'm lucky to have any leftovers (most of the time I end up doubling the recipe and make 10 lbs.), it's great the next day served on top of saltine crackers.

After getting the go ahead from my mother-in-law to share her potato salad recipe, I've done just that (along with the recipe for the perfect hard boiled egg) much to the chagrin of my husband and kids.  I mean, hey, it's a family secret! 

With the cooking done, food, sleeping bags, and camping bin all packed, we were off for our Memorial Day camping adventure.  We may just have found a new tradition....