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Holy guacamole!

June 26th, 2006 at 03:17 am

I continued my cooking streak today with a batch of guacamole - my first try. I tried guacamole on a high school trip to Mexico in 10th grade and thought it was awful. For years I had myself convinced that I hated the stuff - until my brother made some for us last year. It was GREAT. So I got his recipe and tried it out - yummy. The directions were a little complex - first coat the avocado and lime juice, pour the lime juice off and reserve, mash the avocado by hand, add this and then that. The heck with all that, I thought, and dumped the whole mess into the food processor. I don't have time for steps! Anyway, turned out great. I told my brother, who is the most anal cook in the entire world (he measures out the water to boil noodles in for mac and cheese because it says 6 cups on the box), and he gasped a little but didn't faint. But now...we are out of the good wheat tortilla chips - so what else do you use guacamole for??? (until I get more chips, anyway!)
I finally met a client today that I have been corresponding with for a few months via e-mail. He and his family just moved to NY from FL and need to find a house. I showed them one house today, but they didn't care for it. Hopefully I will be able to locate something for them and make another sale. I can't wait to get my hands on the commissions from the two deals I have going on now. We are living right now on my part-time income only, so anything extra will be great to go toward debt reduction. Otherwise, we won't be making any progress at all until DH gets a job (at least January). Which reminds me...
I have been hounding DH to get moving on his student loan consolidation - but he keeps forgetting. I will have to call home from work tomorrow to remind him. The bad part is that we will need to take out loans for the next two semesters (maybe only one if my commissions come thorough), which we will not be able to consolidate at the lower rates. Darn.

3 Responses to “Holy guacamole!”

  1. contrary1 Says:
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    guacamole.........gads, you can put it on almost anything but pancakes maybe. Smile
    Omelettes are great with a glob on top, spread on sandwiches instead of mayo, globbed on top of a taco salad.......... Chips are almost the last thing I would use it for here.

    Now, you need to make a bowl of fresh salsa.........tomatoes, salt, lime juice, onions, cilantro.........let it sit a bit and yummmmm Add this to any of the list above with the guacamole & you've got a meal.

  2. Emma Says:
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    Like contrary1 says, you can pretty much use it anything. I like it on a good burger, no ketchup or mustard or pickles, with lettuce, tomato, onion. I don't ever eat it with chips.

    Being hispanic, we don't mess with throwing junk into guacamole. Restaurants get too fancy with Mexican food, and I hate that. Mexican food is rather simple and plain, and quite easy to prepare (once you know how). There's two things we add to guacamole, a little bit of water and lime juice (for flavor). Oh, and we do mash it by hand, there is a difference.

  3. jodi_m Says:
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    Oh, salsa...that will have to wait until the garden starts producing tomatoes and peppers for us - then we can have it all summer long! if I could get over my squeamishness about canning (always afraid I will do it wrong and give my family botulism), then we could have it all winter too!

    Thanks for the guacamole tips. I will admit that I am no gourmet Smile so easy works better for me than authentic. I do like the addition of diced tomatoes to the guacamole, though - everything else I could probably take or leave (cumin, cilantro, salt, garlic).

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