lunch box adventures

today's menu:

• leftover Mango Red Pepper Salad
• leftover World's Best Potato Salad

Mango Red Pepper Salad:

1 semi ripe mango cut into long slices

1/2 red pepper thinly sliced

1/4 of a small red onion very thinly sliced

small handful of flat leaf parsley chopped

1 small pinch of red hot pepper flakes

salt

juice of 1 lime

olive oil

combine all ingredients together for a delicious summer salad!

World's Best Potato Salad: (adapted from Orangette and family recipes)

3 large baking potatoes unpeeled and washes

1 egg

2 or more tablespoons of real mayonnaise (this is where you control the mayo- to your liking)

1/4 of a small red onion chopped

small handful (roughly 1-2 tablespoons) or fresh chopped dill

salt and pep

small dash of paprika

-Boil the potatoes whole and unpeeled in a pot of salted water. Add the egg to the pot as well. Cook until the potatoes are a firm/soft (until you can pierce the potato with a knife fairly easily) and until the egg is hard boiled. Run the potatoes and egg under cold running water to cool them down.

-Once cool, peel and chop the potatoes. I like to keep my potatoes fairly chunky. Add to a large bowl.

-Chop the egg. Add the egg to the bowl of potatoes.

-Prepare the onion and dill and add to the bowl.

-Add your mayonnaise, salt and pep and at the end sprinkle some paprika on top for colour and a hint of smokiness.