Egg and Bacon Potato Salad

Crossposted to cookbook_challenge

Another recipe from Restore by Gizzi Erskine.

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( Method )

Mistakes, Changes and Substitutions
The recipe recommends purple potatoes, "a heritage variety from Peru". Seriously, this cookbook is so middle-class it's almost a parody. Anyway, new potatoes from Sainsbury's it was. There was also another household discussion about whether a cookbook whose raison d'être was sustainability should be recommending heritage potatoes from Peru.

I also discovered late in the day that we had no mayonnaise but nevertheless had a mysterious second pot of soured cream. So I used double soured cream and no mayonnaise for the dressing. Seemed to work fine.

Verdict
I would put this in the "fine but wouldn't make again" category were it not that offspring spontaneously asked to try it and announced that it should be added to the list of things she would eat. Don't get me wrong, there is plenty she will eat if needs must, but the list of things she would choose to eat is considerably shorter and I was surprised she was up for this both because of the soured cream and because of the jalapeños (though she does like olives so maybe that shouldn't have surprised me). All that said, she only ate a serving spoonful of it and then went back to pasta and pesto, which I'd also cooked to avoid the guilt of forcing the offspring to eat food she didn't like. Anyway, I might make this again, particularly should the offspring happen to request it.