Avocados ripening FAST.... no Guac ingredients!!

[TygrBright]

What do I do with them?

FWIW, I don't like avocados, I buy them for the Darling Husband, in the (frequently forlorn) hopes of getting him to eat a bit of salad or treating him to guacamole.

However, I don't have any fresh tomato for guac, and no chips, tortillas, or pita on hand to eat it with! (Tomorrow is shopping day, 'cause it's the Farmers' Market day.)

Any good suggestions for an avocado-based treat for my one and only true love tonight?

beseechingly,
Bright

[The empressof all]

1. Just mash them up;

If you have a little chopped onion and some lemon or lime juice add that too. I never put tomatoes in the guac anyway. Just serve it as a side or perhaps if you have some burgers as a condiment with them. I love guac on burgers. You could mix mashed avocados in egg salad for green egg salad. YUMMMMMMMMY. Or bacon and avocado sandwiches....

If worse comes to worse...mash them up if they won't keep and give each other facials tonight. Avocados are great for the complexion.

[Warpy]

3. Don't forget the garlic

and chile if you've got it, chile powder if you don't.

Can't stand bland guacamole. Leaving tomatoes out is fine, though.

[eleny]

2. Do you have any salsa in the house?

I made myself some guacamole tostadas for lunch today. All I added was some salsa from a jar to the mashed avocado and some fresh lime juice. You don't really need the lime juice.

Edit: You can use the above a spread on sandwiches since you don't have any chips etc.

[Dora]

4. Avocado!

Avocado makes great sandwiches when paired with muenster cheese and onion and tomato (with potato chips on challah with mayo), or turkey, or bacon. I also like avocado chopped up and mixed into a tossed salad, but I know that's not an option for y'all. :) They also make wonderful enchiladas and tostadas. I order the avocado taco for my son whenever we go to the taqueria for dinner.

Another poster pointed out that you don't need mix-ins for good guac, and I agree. I'm partial to a bit of garlic, a squeeze of lime or lemon juice, and maybe a touch of sour cream if the avos were a little firm. No chips or dippers? You could try toast triangles.

[NMDemDist2]

5. omelettes

with cheese, avo and sour cream (salsa too if you've got it)

[TygrBright]

6. Omelettes are ALWAYS popular here...

...even though we are trying to be moderate in our egg consumption. Has anyone ever done an avocado quiche, flan, or souffle?

curiously,
Bright

[NMDemDist2]

8. i'm not sure you can cook them that much. that's why the work well

in omelets since they don't have to be heated much in there :shrug:

but i've never tried

and when are we gonna meet halfway with Warpy and do a NM DU meet up???

soon I hope! :bounce:

[TygrBright]

11. Oh, yeh, we should do that!

I've been looking for some excuses to head south...

interestedly,
Bright

[Warpy]

14. When Warpy gets some sight back?

I won't get stitches out before November and the vision won't progress well until the stitches start to come out.

I probably won't see tolerably well for a year or more.

[NMDemDist2]

15. maybe we;ll have to come to you then dear and take you out to lunch

when you're up to your eyebrows with construction mess??

:hug:

[TygrBright]

17. We can prolly do that... I look even more heavenly gorgeous...

...when seen through a veil of post-surgery blurring, etc. heheheheh...

vainly,
Bright

[TygrBright]

7. Thanks, everyone! Good ideas... I will see if I can get Himself...

...to stop at the quik-mart for some tortilla chips and just make materless guac with a squirt of lime juice and some garlic. And maybe a teeeeeny-tiny soupcon of chile, though it's hard to get the chile zing without it being "too hot" for his palate.

We do have fun... right after we married we moved to the Chesapeake Bay area, Maryland's Eastern Shore. As I've mentioned before, I'm allergic to all things seafoody. People would look at us in bafflement and say, "You're ALLERGIC to seafood? And you moved to the EASTERN SHORE?" But he adores seafood and happily chowed down crab cakes and Maryland Crab soup and mussels and what-all.

Ha! Now it's his turn: "You don't like chile? And you moved to NEW MEXICO?!?" Meanwhile, I smile quietly and order a little extra green chile for my food...

amusedly,
Bright

[Duer 157099]

9. Simplest thing to do with them

is mash them up and add some salt and garlic powder, spread on toast of some sort.

Mmmmmmmmmmmm!

[grasswire]

10. I don't like garlic in guacamole

...although I know lots of people do. My favorite recipe is just lime juice and a dash of cumin or chili powder. That's it. The avocado shines through.


Avocado is also good with a splash of vinaigrette as a salad. Yum!

[politicat]

12. Secret: Mashed and mixed with a little lime in a zippy bag...

They freeze. Thaw in the fridge until soft, then mix with sour cream, salsa or chopped tomatoes, some onion or onion powder, and a little more lime juice.

Use about a tablespoon of juice per two avocados. Lemon also works well.

[TygrBright]

13. Woa!! That is a SERIOUSLY helpful tip, especially...

...when I have more avocados on hand than we can eat in a day or two. Thanks!

appreciatively,
Bright

[franmarz]

16. Avacados are everywhere--and soooo good-try this recipe

When I grew up in Texas, we simply sliced and avacado, sprinkled salt and pepper and ate it like that. When I moved up to Indiana, my husbands family had an altogether different way to prepare-and I like it better.
Mash the Haas avacado, mix in some canned tomato about 1 tablespoon to an avacado, chop finely-1 tablespoon onion, add 1 teaspoon parmesean cheese, and dashes of salt-pepper-garlic. The Haas avacado is the best, our Florida avacados are twice the size, but not even half the flavor of a Haas. You can add some Salsa if you like also.
When I have too much left over, I put it in a plastic bag, squeeze out the air pockets, and freeze. It will not turn brown, and remains fresh tasting when thawed.

[NMDemDist2]

18. hi franmarz, good to see you! and that recipe sounds great and will

something everybody has in their kitchens

when you say "canned tomato" do you mean stewed tomatoes?