Oh, avocados. Green, succulent, and delicious. Excellent on sandwiches, in dip, and in salads.
This afternoon, I treated myself to one of my favorite culinary pleasures: a fresh roll of bread, shredded lettuce, a hint of mayo, a few strips of bacon, and a slathering of avocado. GUH! Heaven.
How do you like your avocado?
If there is a Hell, Avocado and Liver is what they have for dinner there.
Guacamole!
I make is with fresh salsa from the deli and Haas avocados. A bowl of tortilla chips and a nice glass of wine - nothing better.
I also make an avocado and mango fresh chutney to serve as a condiment with grilled fish. It’s easy and yummy (cubed mangos and avocados, sliced green onion, diced fresh peppers and some grated fresh ginger).
Really? I’ve always picture dinner in hell as being some gawdaful Hamburger Helper dish with Al Franken and Michael Moore as a dining companions.
Avocado…Mmmm. Just a little lemon juice and salt to make them even more perfect, if that’s possible.
Mmmm… mash 'em up with some salt, and spread on buttered toast for breakfast! Yum!
The only trouble with avocados is that, like pears, they’re only perfectly ripe for five minutes. Before that they’re stringy, after that they’re spotty and …ew.
Guacamole for sure, also on sammiches (sometimes all by themselves!), in salads and just sliced in half and salted and eaten with a spoon.
Nummy.
Did anyone else think that this was a thread where we all were goint to talk about how we wished that they stil made appliances in avocado green and harvest gold?
Mmmm, avocados!
When I was pregnant with my daughter, they were one of the foods I craved all the time. After she started eating solids, they were actually one of her favorites, too.
Avocado, tomato, swiss cheese, sprouts and cucumber on whole grain bread makes a tasty and healthy sandwich. Same ingredients in a wrap is pretty good, too.
I also like them featured in a Caterpillar maki roll.
My sister is allergic to avocados. Poor thing!
I’ll second the guacamole. I like it on carnitas tacos with some fresh salsa and chips…hey, what a coincidence, just what I’m eating right now!
Hard to beat avocados in the spring of the year, when they’re at their nutty best. Just a little salt and eat them all by their lonesome. Hated them when I was a kid; would kill for good ones now. In Uganda, we had a HUGE avocado tree in our yard. The things would fall off when ripe and we couldn’t give them away fast enough to keep up.
Someone told me that they grill their avacados! What will they think of next!?
ZJ
Avacados…divinity smooshed inside a thin, bumpy skin. If they were not so expensive (which I don’t fault them for - divinity doesn’t come cheap), I would eat them for every meal. When I become rich and famous, or king of the world (whichever comes first), I will have ripe women to feed me ripe avacados while I bask in the sun. Until then, I will have to make do with one every couple days. It’s hard, but I get by.
Looks like I am alone in my utter dislike of avocados. I’ve eaten avocado once in my life. I’d wonder if I’d had a bad one except I’m sure it was a fresh and normal avocado.
I don’t know if this will make you feel any better, but my 15-y.o. daughter detests avocados. She likes guacamole just fine though. Lest you think she’s absolutely nuts, lemme 'splain, in her words:
“You EXPECT guacamole to be slimy and smooshy, 'cuz it LOOKS slimy and smooshy. Cut-up avocados look like they should be crispy. Eating something that looks crispy and feels slimy is just, EWWW GROSS!”
Don’t forget the rust colored long shag carpet!
I live in California - we know avocados.
A few years ago, I travelled to visit relatives in the Midwest with my mother and one of my sisters. While on a layover at the Minneapolis airport, we had lunch. I ordered a crab and avocado salad - completely blanking out on the fact that we were no longer on the coast. The crab was passable, but the avocado was completely unripe. It tasted like a bar of soap. If that is any indication as to how people for whom avocados are an import have experienced them, I’m not surprised you didn’t like them.
Soap is about the closest thing with which I can associate the taste, so you might be right.
And here I felt like an oddball because I thought I was the only one who did this.
Y’all, try avocado slices alternating with mango slices and squeeze a little lime juice on it. Heaven!
Sounds interesting - I’ll have to try it soon.
My favorite is guacamole, with tomato, onion and lots of cilantro. Or sliced on an omelet. Or in a salad with mâche, grapefruit, walnuts and a light vinaigrette. Or…
GT