Simply Recipes / Frank Tiu Why Make This This salad blends deviled eggs and potato salad into one flavorful backyard side dish. You can easily make it ahead for gatherings, saving time on the day you serve it. I recently learned via an Instagram video that adding hard-boiled eggs to potato salad is controversial. To me, there’s no controversy, only a superior way of making the classic cookout side dish—with the eggs, thank you—and I’d never consider doing it another way.