Avocado toast is overrated. There’s nothing to it, just mashed up avocados on toast, but for some reason it started showing up on restaurant menus several years ago. Some have even declared it to be California’s signature food.
I like avocados. I love guacamole when it’s well-made (though there’s a lot of bad guacamole, even in Mexican restaurants). But IMO, avocado toast is hardly worth being called a dish or a recipe.
I make this once a week using a toasted bagel. I mash up the avocado with salt and lemon olive oil, then mix in a little chopped tomato and top it with bacon.
Yet another mayo-based rant, but spicy mayo sauce on sushi rolls is an abomination, but it must be quite popular because it seems like 80% of sushi rolls are covered in this shit. If I wanted food covered in mayo, I would get a big mac.
Underrated? Tofu. There are many ways to make really bad tofu, but if you make it right, it can be delicious, and it is very inexpensive. I use an air fryer to cook mine and it comes out perfectly.
Well, sure - it’s basically a kissing cousin variant of Thousand Islands dressing (just drops the ketchup for paprika and onions). But I think most people consider mayo per se and TI dressing pretty different in flavor. I mean would you also consider tartar sauce to be mayo?
No shade if you hate them all of course, they just all register as pretty different (if related) things to my palate.
Yes, I get that you can make different sauces from mayo, but in all of them, the mayo dominates the flavor, IMO. And I don’t hate all of them, I just don’t want mayo on my sushi.