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Cheeseburger Potato Salad

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Ingredients Method Notes

Ingredients
  

  • 1 large potato per person, in chunks
  • 1 oz cheese per person, grated
  • 2 oz ground beef per person, cooked
  • 1 healthy spoonful mayonnaise or salad dressing per person
  • 1 small tomato per person, chopped
  • 2 pickle slices per person, chopped
  • 1/8 onion per person, chopped
  • Lettuce, cut up like you would for a lettuce salad
  • Mustard or Catsup, opt.

Method
 

  1. In stovetop pan barely cover potatoes with water, put lid on pot, bring to boil, turn to low, cook for 5 minutes or until potatoes are just done. Drain and cool.
  2. Cook ground beef.
  3. Mix potatoes, ground beef, grated cheese, and mayonnaise or salad dressing. This is the base.
  4. Add the other items at the table. Each person can add what they like and mix it on their plate.

Notes

If you know the salad will get eaten and there won't be leftovers, you can mix all the ingredients at serving time. Tomatoes, pickles, and onions can make leftovers of potato salad taste weird so I leave them out if I think I have made too large a base.
Other salad dressings can replace the mayonnaise, like Thousand Island, Ranch, or Oil and Vinegar. 
We like cheddar cheese, but any cheese will work.
Other meats will work - ground pork, sausage, chorizo, leftover meat chopped small, ground chicken or turkey. 
A slice of bacon, cooked and broken up, or bacon bits would add a good flavor.
Pickle relish can be substituted for the pickles.
Pasta or rice could be substituted for the potatoes. The starch could also be left out and the rest of the items just eaten with lettuce and salad greens.
Lots of variations for this recipe.