Meals as a Mrs. ~ The Works Baked Potato Salad

Earlier this summer, at a Good Godly Grub back in June, a friend brought this delicious potato salad to the house.  I am picky about macaroni and potato salads and don't like many.  However, this recipe had me begging for more.  So much so that I asked Ann for the recipe and made it as a side dish for when my parents and cousins came over for lunch last month!

This is a Pampered Chef recipe but have no fear.  You can still follow the recipe and make it without the special tools as I did.  ; )  I completely forgot to take a picture of the finished product but here is a picture I found online.  Also, this potato salad is served cold.  Apparently there was some confusion on some of our guests' part that this might be a warm potato salad due to the mention of the baked potato in the name of this delicious side dish.

In reflecting on some of the paperwork from our Engaged Encounter weekend held last October, I read this particularly beautiful passage regarding married love and the gift of life:

Married love differs from any other love in the world.  By its nature, the love of husband and wife is so complete, so ordered to a lifetime of communion with God and each other, that it is open to creating a new human being they will love and care for together.  Part of God's gift to husband and wife is this ability in and through their love to cooperate with God's creative power.  Therefore, the mutual gift of fertility is an integral part of the bonding power of marital intercourse.  That power to create new life with God is at the heart of what spouses share with each other.

To be sure, spouses who are not granted the gift of children can have a married life that is filled with love and meaning.  As Pope John Paul II said to these couples in a 1982 homily, "You are no less loved by God; your love for each other is complete and fruitful when it is open to others, to the needs of the apostolate, to the needs of the poor, to the needs of orphans, to the needs of the world."