Mom beat me to posting today (that's an egg joke)

Today's recipe is brought to you by the letter "C". The "C" is for Columbia where this recipe was created. It doesn't seem very Colombian, I will warn you. But my roommates talk about making this all the time and I thought well it will work for this week as I have all the ingredients and its pretty easy. Annnnnnnnnd it turned out to be pretty delicious. If you are familiar with potato salad then this recipe really won't really throw you a difficult curve ball.

Colombian Potato Salad

Get your regular potato salad ingredients together... boiled eggs, potatoes and mayo.
You'll also need a can of tuna, sunflower seeds, green onions, fresh cilantro, fresh or dried parsley and you can throw some veggies in there if you like too - chopped up spinach or broccoli.


The secret ingredient is: Alex's Aioli!
(I just looked aioli up and its garlic and mayo.. but I think it sounds classy anyways)
You'll need: a bunch of fresh cilantro, a few green onions, a tomatoes, a couple cloves of garlic and olive oil.
In a food processor put everything but the olive oil. Put the ground up ingredients in a jar and add enough oil to keep the ingredients moist. Add salt to taste. Keep in fridge.

So put everything but mayo and sunflower seeds in a bowl. Spoon a couple generous tablespoons of the cilantro aioli over your ingredients, mix up and let sit in the fridge for an hour or so. Add a few tablespoons of mayo and sunflower seeds and let sit another hour or so (or until dinner's ready :) The tuna was the part that threw me for a loop but it was pretty tasty.

And voila! So, the prep and time for the aioli takes a little extra effort but since Mariluz and Alex had copious amounts already in the fridge it worked out perfectly! I now put it on everything. I am going to check with Alex to see if there is an exact recipe... although I wrote what he told me. :)

I certainly didn't use as many eggs as Mom did but I am glad I used this often-recommended-to-me recipe :) I can't get the picture from my camera as I have packed the cord and didn't have the chip in at the time. But, let's be honest you know what it looks like and it's not really a gorgeous picture.

Great to be back at the blog! Be sure to vote for next week's ingredient!