I tried to make "Rita's Egg Salad," named after this person at church who always brings in egg salad. I always hated egg salad. Then I heard people rolling their eyes on how good her egg salad was. So I ate it. Now I like egg salad. So I got the recipe. I made it. She had told me, don't use the food processor, you need to beat the salad for an hour. I said, you know, pfft. I'm using the food processer, Rita, get out of the 18th century here. I used the processor. for waaaaaay too long. I would have called this "Rita's Egg Paste" but I **know** she would disown -- yes disown -- any such attribution because I used the cockamayme processor. So poo. Here is my paste.. Beat it for an hour and it will make a much more standard Egg Salad.
20 Eggs, hard boiled.
4 heaping tablespoons of dill
2 heaping tablespoons of dry onion'
celery seeds to taste if you have them
1/4 cup mustard. use more than you think
1/2 cup mayo. More if you want to make egg salad and beat it for a stupid hour. I mean you know what egg salad looks like for crying out loud. Jeez.
Beat it in a processor until you realize you went waaay to far. Look at it, nonplussed, with some slumped shoulders, and then get out some good rye, toast it, eat it and realize that its still pretty darn good. then spill half of it on the floor, clean it up. wait dont do that. i did that. didnt make it taste any better.
charlie
I am hoping Rita starts calling her recipe "Not Very Whipped Egg Salad". Love this story Charlie. And congrats on being the first one to post!
ReplyDeleteMimi
Is that DRY mustard or yellow mustard like you put on hot dogs or sandwiches? Just wondering. THANKS, CHARLIE!
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