Potato/Green Bean Salad & Bratwursts

Surfing the web we found this balsamic potato and green bean salad, which we decided to modify a little bit - not least due to the ingredients we had on hand, but also to modify the amount of dressing a bit. We decided to go with bratwursts as company for this potato salad.

Ingredients:
- 1.5 lbs small potatoes
- 1 lb green beans
- 1 bunch (12-15) radishes
- ¹/₂ red onion
- 2 tbsp balsamic vinegar
- juice of ¹/₂ lime
- 2 tsp dijon mustard
- ¹/₂ tsp sugar
- 4 tbsp olive oil
- pepper
- 1 beer
- water
- bratwursts

Boil the potatoes in salted water, in a pot large enough to throw in the beans for the last 3 minutes. When done, pour off the water and let cool a little bit.

In a second pot bring 1 beer^[1] mixed with an equal volume of water to a boil - NB: Be careful as it can very easily foam a lot and spill over. Add the sausages when the water (beer) is boiling and boil lightly while finishing the potato salad.

In a bowl mix vinegar, mustard, lime juice, sugar, pepper, and oil. Add finely diced onion and sliced radishes. Now add the potatoes and the beans and toss to coat these with the dressing.

Finally, take the sausages out of the water (beer)^[2] and fry on the pan just to give them a nicely brown colour.

Serve with mustard. In our opinion this is 3 (maybe 4) servings.

^[1] I used a Trader Joe's Bavarian Hefeweizen, but that is hardly essential.
^[2] Although I'm normally strongly opposed to the idea of throwing away beer, I have to say I made an exception with this one after having boiled sausages in it.