now maybe I'm biased because this is my husband's recipe

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Keep It Simple Y'all Everyday

Photography by CJ Bryant

Why it worked

The creator leverages a popular comfort food recipe (loaded baked potato salad) and presents it in a clear, step-by-step format. The inclusion of a cookbook as the source of the recipe and a direct call to action to purchase it, combined with the creator's engaging personality, likely contributed to its success.

Summary

The creator demonstrates how to make loaded baked potato salad, starting with boiling potatoes and cooking bacon. The ingredients are then combined with sour cream, mayonnaise, ranch seasoning, shredded cheddar cheese, and green onions. The creator also shows the cookbook the recipe is from and encourages viewers to purchase it.

Structure

1Prepare potatoes and bacon
2Boil potatoes and cook bacon
3Mix dressing ingredients
4Combine all ingredients

Original caption

From Keep It Simple Y’all Everyday, let’s eat Loaded Baked Potato Salad! #EasyRecipes #potatoes #potatosalad #loadedpotatoes #sidedish

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Product placement

Black Label Bacon: it is diced and cooked for the potato salad. Removing it would change the recipe. Kraft Sharp Cheddar: it is shredded and added to the potato salad. Removing it would change the recipe. Daisy Sour Cream: it is mixed into the potato salad dressing. Removing it would change the recipe. Keep It Simple Y'all Everyday: this is the title of the cookbook shown on screen. Removing it would change the context of the recipe. The cookbook is shown as the source of the recipe and is promoted for purchase.

Call to action

You can pick up a copy of this wherever you like to buy your books

On-screen text

From Keep It Simple Y’all Everyday, let’s eat Loaded Baked Potato Salad! #EasyRecipes #potatoes #potatosalad #loadedpotatoes #sidedish

Transcript

now maybe I'm biased because this is my husband's recipe but I think this is the best potato salad recipe and I'm about to show you we're gonna start with three pounds of these little baby red potatoes and we're gonna cut them up into little bite size pieces like this I like to leave the skins on mine now they're all gonna go in a pot we're gonna cover them with generously salted water we'll boil them until they're fork tender while those potatoes are cooking we're gonna get a pound of bacon and we're gonna dice it up this bacon's going into a cold pan as the pan heats up the fat will render down out of that bacon and once it's nice and crispy we're gonna pull it out and put it on a paper towel lined plate okay potatoes and bacon are both done and they're cooling off so in this bowl we're gonna mix up a cup of sour cream some Mayo and a packet of ranch seasoning mix now we're gonna mix in our potatoes eight ounces of shredded sharp cheddar and if you wanna grate up your own cheese go for it that's actually what I planned on doing but I guess moving to the new house I lost my cheese grater this is gonna taste just as good I promise now we're putting that bacon in and we're gonna chop in some green onion I like a lot in mine there we go loaded baked potato salad you can serve it right away but it is really good the next day after it sits in the fridge overnight I'll do it right there this was page one sixty eight how to keep it simple y'all every day you can pick up a copy of this wherever you like to buy your books come fix you a bowl of this potato salad and make it for your next cookout damn that's good