"Confetti" Potato Salad

Potluck Favorite: A Colorful, No Mayonnaise Potato & Sweet Potato Salad It's premise is simple, half potatoes and half sweet potatoes plus plenty of other vegetables for good color and good crunch. The recipe is a crowd-pleaser taste-wise and looks-wise. ~ Skip Straight to the Recipe ~ Stories of (Knife) Snobbery A food snob is bad enough. But a knife snob? I've cooked with a knife snob and oh, friends, and it's not pretty. When one takes charge of your kitchen, look out. Inspection starts with a cursory look-see, disdain barely feigned at an all-too familiar brand and a stick tang versus, y’know, a full tang . Sigh. Then comes the test grip, checking heft and balance, followed by a telltale tilt to gauge the edge’s sharpness in the light, and finally the palm press, checking for, and finding, well, dullness. Big sigh. I shouldda brought my knives , you hear. Then, You gotta sharpener? Swoosh, swoosh, the blade scrapes against the sharpening steel,