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Sour Cream and Onion Potato Salad

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two plates of smashed baby potatoes topped with sour cream chives and red onion
Photo by Chelsie Craig, Food Styling by Pearl Jones

Some would call showering potato salad with potato chips “gilding the lily.” We would call it “extremely sensible and incredibly tasty.”  

  

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