Potato salad

Sunday is a lazy day. We're fetching some take-away barbecued chicken for dinner - a Portuguese speciality that is really so simple that the Portuguese don't often advertise it abroad. I am making some potato salad to go with it.

Ingredients (for around four or five people)

• 10 potatoes
• 2 onions
• a stalk of celery
• 2 pickled cucumbers
• 3 hard-boiled eggs
• cream
• vinegar
• olive oil
  
• nutmeg
• white pepper
• salt

1. Peel, dice and steam the potatoes until cooked
2. While the potatoes are cooking, chop the onions, place them in a large bowl (the one you will use for serving); cover them with boiling water for around five minutes then strain
   
3. Chop the celery and the pickles and add them to the onions
4. Add salt, nutmeg, white pepper
5. Add vinegar, olive oil and cream till the bottom of the bowl looks soupy; mix well
6. Add the cooked potatoes while still hot and mix them in the dressing
7. Chop the hard-boiled eggs and mix them in them last
   
8. Let the salad cool naturally and serve at room temperature