Skinny Potato Salad

With July 4th coming up, this is the perfect light transition from a summer classic: potato salad.  Although you can buy ready-made potato salad at the grocery store, I love the taste of fresh ingredients sprinkled with some convenience (enter: ranch packet!).  We tend to keep recipes lower in fat if they're high in carbohydrates, but even if you don't follow those guidelines, this is a great side dish regardless! 

This recipe was adapted from Train for Her magazine.

Step-by-step:

1. Cube potatoes (skin on) and place into pan with boiling water.

2. Boil potatoes until done (when you can easily pierce with fork). Let cool.

3. In medium bowl, combine remaining ingredients.

4. Add cooled potatoes, salt to taste, stirring gently. Serve chilled.

Final step: sanitize screen and lick accordingly ;)  

Summer Check-List

For me, the aroma of summer smells like BBQ.  Burgers grilling and buns toasting!  We kicked off our first summer in Louisville with a little cookout to celebrate the great weather.  We played with traditional potato salad by using sour cream and greek yogurt with a ranch dressing packet and boom - so good!  This picture depicts my happiness over said cookout and the fact that I haven't killed the herb kits I got at Target.  Success.

These pictures of burgers and potato salad are from our kick-off cookout last year, for the effect ;)

I've decided I'd like to make a Summer Check List of sorts, to try out fun activities to see if we'd like to make them traditions.  That's one of my favorite parts about being married - deciding on family traditions.  

The point of this post is to ask for your help! What are some of your favorite summer activities and traditions?  Let me know in the comments.  I'd love to add them to our list!