there are as many ways to make 'tater salad as there are cooks. My way is best of course, David comes real close, but his exclusion of pickle relish is suspect.
Redskin potatoes, boiled whole, skin on, and not cooked to freaking mush
Dukes (Or Hellmanns in a pinch)
Yeller mustard
salt, fresh black pepper
pickle relish
fine diced sweet onion
chopped scallions and some fine diced red bell pepper for color
Paprika on top.
For me, that's the way to do it
This man knows how to make a potato salad! Only heathens would forgot the paprika.
Now my wife makes what I guess is a Russian style potato salad and uses sour crème instead of mayo, and adds chicken and dill. Pretty good stuff in it's own right, but not what I think of as a classic potato salad.
