Help me prepare my first avacado.

[P Chippa]

THE REVIEW

1) Sandwich - Wonderful. The avacado acted both as a moistening condiment and a great flavor addition. It sure does make it big and dense too.

2) Chopped with lemon, S&P - This seamed to be the correct "keep it simple" way to eat avacado, not as an ingredient of a larger dish. The lemon added a perfect brightness to the flavor.

3) Plain, Chopped with soy sauce - This seamed a little salty to me. The flavor was definitely good, but I think the saltyness was a little overpowering for the delicate, mild, flavor of the flesh. It may be my own fault as I drizzled the soy on instead of going for a more controlled dip, where I could have been more careful with the amount of soy going onto each bite.

4) Plain, Chopped with worcestershire sauce - There was something missing here. I like the smokyish taste of worcesterhire, but it didn't seam to meld just right with the avacado IMO. It wasn't terrible by any means. It just was lacking something.

5) Guac - Delicious. I'll be making this often. Once I started scooping with the chips, I had to pull myself away from it to continue with the others. The lemon, tomato, onion and garlic is a supreme combo with the avacado, making a great dip.

6) Sour Cream - Loved it. I liked it more with the lemon doused rather than the plain. It presented multiple layers of mellow and sharp sourness, & multiple layers of mellow and sharp creamyiness. Awesome.

7) Plain with & without Salt - Another poster said sometime you need some salt and sometimes you don't, depending on the particular fruit. I can see this being the case. I will say that the avacado is delicious on its own, but I can understand how some could be a little bland and need a little sprucing up because of the overall mildness of the flavor.


A big thanks to OOT for hookin' me up with some great ideas for my first avacado experience.

[Jackie Onassis]

Very cool.

[molawn2mo]

Try growing an avocado plant instead of throwing out the pit by inserting 3 toothpicks equi-distant around the midpoint of the circumference of the pit (after washing pit). Put water in a vessel, a glass or small vase will do, so that the toothpicks cause the pit, root side down, to be suspended in the chosen vessel.

Make sure that the water level in the vessel covers the root end (you can pretty much try and leep the water level just below that of the toothpicks) so that the root end does not dry out. The pit will develop water roots and eventually split apart allowing a stalk to grow up. You can maintain the plant in water only for a very long period and/or you can eventually plant same in a pot for growth.

Maintain in a sunny window in winter. In summer you can move it outside understanding that this plant needs to have moisture.

The foliage is not at all spectacular, you will not grow any avacados (unless you live in the tropics) but it is a pretty cool looking thing to see especially when you maintain it in water and not transplant it into soil.

Chicks dig guys who grow plants!

[By-Tor]

Pretty cool. Yeah, the Soy Sauce gets a bit on the salty side...You gotta really like salt for that one.

I'm a salt freak. I actually go for the Soy & Salt sometimes...

Crap, now I want one. Sorry stomach, you's in for some pain today [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[P Chippa]

I think I saw something about growing the plant from the pit on Good Eats. I didn't know that it wouldn't produce any avacado fruit though. It would be cool to see it grow, but if it's not going to give e some avacados, I wouldn't go through the effort much past the novelty of the experiment.

[Philuva]

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5) Guac - Delicious. I'll be making this often. Once I started scooping with the chips, I had to pull myself away from it to continue with the others. The lemon, tomato, onion and garlic is a supreme combo with the avacado, making a great dip.

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I like to slice the avocado into smaller cubes in its skin before removing it and mixing it with the other ingredients. I prefer lime juice to lemon juice. I will also add some finley diced hot peppers and a little bit of green peppers. The ratios look good.

Also, if you want to store leftover guac overnight, the secret to keeping it fresh is reducing exposure to oxygen, so cover it in wrap, but make sure the wrap is pressed directly aginst the guac.

[El Diablo]

P,

Great post and pics. I am buying some more avocados this weekend!

[nutfloppa]

Try spreading it on toast with salt and pepper. Great little snack

[absoludicrous]

Tried the Avocado w/ lemon & salt. Not bad.


Threw some on a burger today with Muenster & BBQ sauce...[censored] delish!

[Legian]

My wife mashes up avocado with a bit of lemon, a touch of tabasco and some mayonaisse. She then takes off the shells and de-veins them. Finally she spreads the avocado mixture onto a piece of bread, tosses on a bit of sea salt, arranges several shrimp on top before grinding some black pepper over it and putting on the top piece of bread.

It's good if the bread is toasted too.

She usually serves me this avocado and shrimp sandwich with a bowl of very cold gazpacho soup. The soup is nice and crunchy because she sprinkles small chunks of cucumber, capsicum, onion, and tomato over the top.

Lunch really doesn't get much better than that.