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The Dirty Secret of Secret Family Recipes. Spoiler: the secret is that most of them come from the side of a jar or box.

My own grandmother's Secret Family Recipe(tm) for potato salad isn't a secret at all, she definitely got it from the side of the Dijonnaise bottle, and I loooove it. She told me right off that's where it was from, and I love telling people it's my grandmother's recipe, waiting for the usual "Those are the best kind" type of statement, then saying she got it off the Dijonnaise bottle. :)

Copied & pasted from our recipe app. No idea why the Annoying Capitalization. The apple cider vinegar is the real secret ingredient: other vinegars are noticeably not as good.

1/4cp Dijonaise
1cp Hellman's Mayonaise
2tbsp Cider Vinegar
2tbsp Chopped Fresh Dill
1/2tsp Salt
1/4tsp Pepper
2lb Potatoes, cubed
1/2cp Sliced Green Onions

1. Mix the dijonaise, mayonaise, cider vinegar, and chopped dill together.
2. Cook the potatoes.
3. Stir the potatoes and onions into the dressing.

Notes:

Let sit for 24 hours for best flavor, but it still tastes good fresh. The dill will magnify amazingly overnight, so don't over-dill it to start with.

Russet or yukon gold potatoes work best, starchy/floury ones, because they suck up some of the dressing. Waxy potatoes don't work well because they sort of float around inside the dressing, if that makes sense.

Recipe given to me by my paternal grandmother, who got it off a Dijonaise bottle.