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Honey Mustard Potato Salad (paleo)

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This paleo-friendly potato salad has a delightfully sweet, tangy, and spicy dressing. Sprinkled with parsley, it tastes great hot or at room temperature!

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One of my favorite Sunday morning activities is going to the farmer’s market. I’ve been lucky that there have been great Sunday farmer’s markets wherever I’ve lived over the last couple of years! There waaaas one in Baltimore where I went to college, but I usually slugged my way through the market, hungover, only passing through because on the other side was the old time Pete’s Grille and I was on a mission to stuff my face with greasy eggs and toast and potatoes. I was unimpressed by all the fresh goodness that surrounded in the market.

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Anywho, in DC there was a great market on Sundays in Dupont Circle - lots of fresh fruit and vegetables, sometimes live music, and great people watching. One of my best friend’s actually worked at one of the stands, which was fun to go and visit. There are a ton of weekend farmer’s markets in Santa Monica that I’ve tagged along with my Mom on the weekends. And now in SF, I have discovered the Clement Street Farmer’s Market which is only blocks from our apartment! It’s beyond a good farmer’s market - it’s a great one. There is produce galore, but also grass-fed meats, freshly caught fishes, gluten-free breads galore, green juice stands, amazing pasture-raised eggs, live music, prepared foods, and just an overall great scene. I’m so lucky I stumbled upon it!

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I think it’s worth it to spend extra money to buy your food at the farmer’s market. Granted, the one time I spent $11 on 4 pears I felt a little…cheated. But overall, the quality of the food is just one million fricken times better. My mom bought all of our produce growing up from farmer’s markets, but I certainly didn’t appreciate it. I think I really started appreciating it after spending time on Nate’s family farm, where his dad actually runs their local farmer’s market. I just started to acutely realize how the food tasted BETTER, and buying from a farmer’s market was better for the local community, for your health, for the environment’s health, etc. The food just tastes how its supposed to. Strawberries taste more like strawberries, and potatoes taste more like - you guessed it - potatoes.

Paleo Honey Mustard Potato Salad | danicaliforniacooks.com

Another great thing about the farmer’s market is the variety in species (do vegetables come in species? I’ll have to check in with my farm-raised BF!). Like check out these potatoes! I told Mr. Potato Man that I was making a potato salad, and he recommended these beautiful purple and pink and yellow potatoes. Did you know that purple potatoes have some of the same antioxidant compounds as blueberries? Eat the rainbow, I tell ya! It’s great to talk to the farmer’s and learn more about what they grow, and how they recommend to prepare things. So even if the price tag is a little higher, you don’t get that one-on-one attention in a grocery store.

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Just to touch upon this recipe after rambling on about my love for farmer’s markets - it’s so versatile, fresh, and flavorful. It tastes wonderful warm or room temperature. I paired it with a kale salad and some fish, but I could see this working as a side dish to a holiday meal down the line as well, or at a casual BBQ. I love creating dishes like this that I know I will re-create again and again!

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Honey Mustard Potato Salad (paleo)
 
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This paleo-friendly potato salad has a delightfully sweet, tangy, and spicy dressing. Sprinkled with parsley, it tastes great hot or at room temperature!
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Serves: 4 servings
Ingredients
  • 6 small-medium sized potatoes (I used varieties of purple, pink, and yellow potatoes)
  • ½ cup parsley, torn and minced
  • 1 tbsp dijon mustard
  • 2 tbsp white vinegar
  • 2 tbsp olive oil
  • 1 tbsp honey
  • Dash of salt and pepper
  • Sprinkle of red pepper flakes
Instructions
  1. In a small pot, cover the potatoes in about an inch of water. Bring to a boil, and then let simmer until fork-tender. Depending on the size of your potatoes, this usually takes under 10 minutes
  2. In the meantime, whisk the mustard, vinegar, oilve oil, honey, salt and pepper
  3. Remove and drain the potatoes
  4. Allow the potatoes to cool so you can cut into cubes
  5. Toss with the dressing and the parsley
  6. Sprinkle on the red pepper flakes
  7. Serve immediately or at room temperature

If you like this, you’ll love: Roasted Carrot and Beet Salad with Pistachios (paleo)

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  7. This salad looks delicious. Love the colored potatoes. The dressing sounds great. I just moved to the Los Angeles area from Phoenix and really want to find a good farmer’s market. Went to one today hoping to pick up some local veggies but there was no local veggies at all 🙁 Any favorite markets in the area that you like?
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    • Whoa!! I am so surprised - the LA area is pretty much surrounded to the north by great farmland that provides awesome produce. I like the farmers markets in Santa Monica and Brentwood - they happen in different locations throughout the week and weekend. There’s a great one in Silver Lake, if you live closer out there. They have a lot of prepared foods too.

  9. OMG! Girl, these potatoes are drop dead gorgeous! I’ve seen the purple ones before, but pink? I’m stunned! I buy most of my produce at one of several farmer’s markets in Charlotte. Ours tend to be less expensive than in the grocery stores. Maybe it has to do with having so many farms locally. Call us lucky! And I’ve totally been to that one in San Francisco when I visited my sister - she lives in Pacifica. I bought some beautiful flowers there!
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    • No way! That’s awesome. And the pink potatoes were a new find for me too - thanks to the farmer who suggested!

    • Yup! I spent four years in Baltimore - I look back on my time there very fondly :). There are definitely some awesome farmer’s markets in the area!

    • I didn’t even think of the drought..that’s a really good point! I wonder how the farmers markets will have to adapt!

    • I would imagine this sauce would go well with AIP-friendly veggies (I know you follow that diet!!) - can’t go wrong with a honey mustard. Carrots for you and potatoes for him!