Roasted Garlic Potato Salad

I have worked 180 hours in the last two weeks. 

We took on a huge project at my real life job, and as a result, have almost been living at the office. 

This left no time for cooking, baking, writing about cooking and baking, or running.

This also means that I've been eating take out or nothing at all for almost every meal. 

 

I miss my kitchen.

 

Labor Day, fittingly, is my first day off in a couple weeks. 

We celebrated yesterday with the family at my mother-in-law's

and I decided to finally write the recipe for the potato salad I took. 

 

I'm not a huge fan of classic potato salads, so I came up with this alternative a few years ago. 

I took inspiration from the classic loaded baked potato you can get at any steakhouse. 

How do you make a baked potato better?  Add bacon.

How do you make garlic yummier?  Roast it.

Blueberry Chipotle Barbecue Sauce

I'm still on blueberries. 

 

I know you're all thinking, "How many blueberries can this girl possibly have?" 

And I'm here to tell you it's something close to five pounds. 

So, a cup here and a cup there, believe it or not, I've barely made a dent. 

Today, I'm branching out and exploring some savory blueberry options.

 

Last weekend, I realized that it had just been too long since we'd

been to a cookout and decided to throw something small together. 

Now, if we're being really strict on the definition of a cookout, this event won't fit the bill.

 

I cooked everything in the house because, for reasons my husband has not fully explained to me, our grill is not yet operational this summer.  But we did eat outside so that has to count for something.

 

On the menu for our impromptu, prepared inside, enjoyed outside meal were baby back ribs with this BBQ sauce, potato salad, pasta salad, baked beans and roasted zucchini and onions.  Yum!

Have a good laugh imagining me trying to stage artistic barbecue sauce photos.

We used this sauce to glaze ribs, but I think it could be used in place of

traditional barbecue sauce in pretty much any dish. 

Sweet, smoky, just the right amount of heat, this sauce has plenty of applications,

I'm thinking I'll try it on chicken wings next.