Chop Scallions for Potato Salad

Video Transcript

"Hi! This is Richard Buccola and today on behalf of Expert Village, I am going to show you how to make some good old fashioned American potato salad. Okay so I just finished chopping my celery. It's nice and fine and nice and small. I just put it in the bowl actually that I was using before I put it on the side. Why do people use scallion versus an onion? My aunt used to say there's a lot of flavor, a lot of good flavor in a scallion, so I use a scallion. If you don't have a scallion, use an onion. Nice sweet onion is always good. Half an onion, half a cup of scallion or onion. I am going to give it a rinse. I'll show you what I'm doing here. I'm using about 4 scallion. Just going to give it a good wash under the faucet. Just give it a shake. Come over here and I'll show you how I do this. I use a whole scallion. What I do if I see something like that, a little stringy, just pull it right off and get rid of it. Same thing here. The one I don't like I just pull it off. Again, anything that you see that you don't like just pull it off. There's a lot of flavor in this. It's going to give it a lot of flavor that you can't even imagine how great it is going to make this salad. That's our trick or my aunt's trick. She used to say, use a scallion. It makes it a lot better. Are you going to put all 4 of them. Just take one of them at a time, whatever is easier. See that root there? Just cut that root off. You don't need that. I cut that root off and get rid of it. Do the same for the other ones. So you've got your scallions. Put them real close. Doing my cutting method again. Real close, take your time. No reason. Just nice small pieces. Just straight through the scallion and you are going to see how nice that is for you. When I come back, I will show you how to start preparing this and it's starting to smell great and use fresh ingredients. See you when I get back. "