avocado poll

[idgiehkt]

How often would you eat avocados if they were available fresh all the time and weren't so blasted expensive?

Just trying to figure out if anyone else loves avocadoes as much as I do. Guacamole counts, but only if it's real, not that sour cream stuff with green food coloring in it.

[Generic Brad]

1. I buy a 4 pack at the grocery store every week

Costs less than $3 and my wife and I mix one into our salads three or four times a week. If I buy them one at a time they are over $1 a piece.

[idgiehkt]

3. I wish I could get them here that way

I bought three yesterday and they were $1.69 a piece. I usually won't pay that much for them, most I ever pay usually is a dollar and twenty-nine cents but I just had to have them, lol. Nice bar code. :hi:

[bridgit]

4. yep = yummy...

:9

[cwydro]

2. They grow here all over the place

and I love them. Like to eat at least one a week.

[idgiehkt]

6. do you have to buy them?

or do you pick them off trees in your yard?

[Scarlett17]

5. Love 'em but they are expensive here in Michigan. n/t

[Shell Beau]

7. They are so yummy! And I love love love guacamole!

:9

[idgiehkt]

8. who is the anonymous avocado hater???

:mad:

[Drum]

9. One of Nature's perfect things.

:loveya:

[u4ic]

10. They're usually 3 for $2 here...

I love them. :9

[mentalsolstice]

11. Avacados and oysters

If they weren't so damn pricey, I'd eat both daily and little else.

[idgiehkt]

13. I am that way with the avocados

oysters I've never had, plus I think they are an animal.

I should have included pico de gallo on the poll too, that counts as well.

[mentalsolstice]

29. Yes

I wouldn't want avacados and oysters together, but they're both favorite foods. Avocados are particularly good for your skin!

[idgiehkt]

31. I've read they have a lot of copper in them

as does chocolate, which can cause brown patches on the face if it accumulates in the liver. There is a medical term for it I can't remember, the folk name is 'mask of pregnancy'.

[mentalsolstice]

33. I dunno

I've just heard some older women swearing by a 1/4+ avocado per day for their skin. Although I'm not vegetarian, I'll really eat anything that's not from red animal meat. I love veggie and fish fat!

[stuntcat]

12. 3 days

because as much as I LOOOOVE avacadoes, I'll get tired of Anything I have too much of. They're too expensive for me to get very often but I can make Rockin' quacamole.

[Nicole]

14. I could eat them everyday

I buy 4 or 5 a week when available. Last week I paid $1.25 a piece for them.

[idgiehkt]

19. it's strange to me that here they are expensive when not ripe

I always get 4 or 5 of them when they are perfectly ripe for 99 cents, but when they are still hard is when they are most expensive, like $1.69. :shrug:

[Nicole]

27. I think so too

I sure wish I could grow my own. They would never survive the winter here though.

[RevolutionaryActs]

15. I would eat them everyday.

:drools:

[Left Is Write]

16. I really do not like avocados.

[idgiehkt]

17. dammit, where's my taser...

just kidding. :hi:

[Left Is Write]

18. Look at it this way: you get my share of the avocados.

[idgiehkt]

20. yeah, but I was wanting to start an avocado fan club

and this means you won't be in it. :(

[Left Is Write]

21. That's okay. There are plenty of other food fan clubs we could probably start.

[idgiehkt]

22. do you like candy corns?

err..I don't know if those even count as food, though. :shrug:

[Left Is Write]

23. I like to have one handful every Halloween...

and that's enough for me.

Do you like dark chocolate?

[idgiehkt]

24. YES!

That is more of a drug for me than a food, lol.

[Left Is Write]

25. Well, there you go!

Dark chocolate (the darker the better) is almost a religion. I like very dark chocolate. 60% cacao is good, but I really like the 70-75%.

[idgiehkt]

26. ooh, the hard stuff.

Lol, now I am thinking about driving up to the gas station just to get some chocolate. It will probably hurt my stomach this late at night though. All they have is special dark, I don't know what percentage that is.

[begin_within]

28. This would be a good time to post my guacamole recipe...

It may seem a little nit-picky, but it's actually an easy recipe.

Easy and Great Guacamole

1/4 teaspoon salt
1 lime
1 large or 2 small cloves garlic
1/4 cup green taco sauce - not red
4 large Haas avocados, very ripe
Fresh tortilla chips

Use only Hass avocados - do not use Fuerte, Bacon or Zutano avocados. Pinkerton avocados are acceptable if Hass are not available, but the results are best with Hass. When fully ripe, the avocados will be completely black on the outside, and soft but not squishy.

Squeeze juice from the lime into a bowl. Cut the squeezed lime peel in a few pieces, and drop into the lime juice. Add salt and mash lime peel down. Allow to sit for a few minutes to let the lime oil come out of the peel. Then discard the lime peel.

Use only fresh garlic. Mash the garlic with a garlic press, then add to lime juice mixture. Add the green taco sauce. A can of diced mild green chiles can be substituted for the taco sauce. Use a stronger taco sauce if you want it more spicy, but do not use red taco sauce or red chilis, as they will ruin the bright green color of the guacamole. Stir mixture until thoroughly mixed.

Cut avocados in half and remove pits. If there is any brown flesh on the inside, cut that away. The green areas in the same avocado is still perfectly usable. Using a knife, dice the avocado flesh while still in the shell, then scoop out with spoon and into the lime juice mixture.

Add diced avocado to the mixture, and stir just until it blends in. It should still have hundreds of tiny chunks of avocado throughout, it should not be a completely smooth paste. If you are a salt fiend, taste the guacamole and if it is not salty enough for you, add 1/4 teaspoon more salt. But the tortilla chips will also supply salt. Do not add cumin or any other seasonings. Do not add tomatoes!

Cover tightly and refrigerate for one hour. Serve within 4 hours of making it - it will only last one day. Serve with the freshest tortilla chips you can get - go to a Mexican bakery if possible. This recipe never fails - set it down at a party and watch it vanish within minutes.

Enjoy!
Bob Weaver

[idgiehkt]

30. just reading this:

"4 large Haas avocados, very ripe"

did something to me, lol. It sucks because there are no 24 hour grocery stores around here. :(

Are you anti-cilantro in your guacomole? I love cilantro.

[begin_within]

32. No, I love cilantro. I confess I have put it in my guacamole, and it's good.

I think I added that comment to a later version of my recipe, but I must have just now posted an earlier version where I said no other seasonings. A little cilantro does enhance it, but you have to be careful that the cilantro doesn't overwhelm the other flavors. Avocados have a subtle flavor and the lime oil flavor is crucial to the recipe. Can you make me some too?

[idgiehkt]

34. I used to work in a health food store restaurant and got to make it

all the time. I adore that stuff. One great advantage of working in a restaurant, really, really good free food. :)

[begin_within]

36. I would caution against buying the avocados from Chile, though. Because,

I bought some Hass avocados from Chile last week, and the flesh turned out to be gray, stringy and flavorless, even after ripening them in a warm corner. It was nothing like the buttery smooth green flesh of Hass avocados from California in the summer. Unfortunately the avocado crop here was damaged a month ago - it got down to 25 degrees one night here in San Diego. Not only did a significant number of the fruit freeze solid, but millions of the trees themselves have since died. In the local news they keep saying that consumers won't see any change in the retail price of avocados this summer, because the crop is going to be augmented by avocados from Mexico. But I'll believe that when I see it. The growers are going to have to recoup their losses somehow and I predict that the retail prices of avocados will be higher for a few years, just because of a few nights of sub-freezing temperatures here in January. Another casualty of climate change...

[idgiehkt]

37. Nooooooooooo!!

Crap. I already can't hardly afford them. Great. :(

I wish I could grow my own.

[begin_within]

40. You can grow avocado plants as houseplants, but they won't bear fruit indoors.

They won't bear fruit unless they reach full, adult size, and avocados are tender, tropical trees that can die in sub-freezing weather. So unless you have a greenhouse that is large enough for a mature tree, or you live in a climate where freezing temps are rare or nonexistent, it's pretty much impossible to grow them to fruit-bearing size. Even in San Diego County (the "Big Avocado") they are usually planted on hillsides, where cold air drains away from them, and not on valley floors where cold air collects. The news keeps saying that in spite of the huge losses last month, the retail price will not be higher this year, so let's hope for the best!

[XemaSab]

35. You can get them 10/$1.00 in La Conchita

:P

[idgiehkt]

38. where is this la conchita you speak of?

In Mexico?

man, I would turn green if I lived there, I'd be eating them for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

[XemaSab]

39. Between Ventura and Santa Barbara

Better go before they are buried under an avalanche of avocados. :scared:

[astral]

41. That recipe sounds great!

I used to make it with just avocados and a little Pace Picante Sauce mixed in, nothing else. But I'm going to try your recip sometime. Up here, avocados are expensive, or else too rotten to wanna buy when they go on sale. I have bought the Costco bag a number of times (approx. 5 big avocadoes for approx. $7.50 or more) and sometimes I got weird ones --
---stringy all throughout BLECH!
---BROWN on the inside even though they didn't seem overripe at all from the outside
---peppery taste that left my tongue sore for a couple days (SWEAR to God this happened -- I became afraid of avocadoes after that figuring they are genetically modified or something.)

. . . . . I miss them though. Is it supposed to be better to find those 'organic?' Or is there such a thing?

[crim son]

42. Avocados are one of my favorite foods, along with

artichokes and hearts of palm. God that sounds good now, all three of them.

[idgiehkt]

47. yum

I've had three avocadoes today. :)

[crim son]

49. I wish they weren't as caloric as they are.

I'm using them to make california rolls tomorrow. I buy two and use about three quarters of one. The rest I just eat :)

[idgiehkt]

50. it's good fat though

the ones I bought tonight were perfectly ripe. I really wouldn't mind some more, but $5.00 for 3 avocados in one day is hard enough to justify.

[crim son]

51. Yes it's good fat & that's what I tell myself.

I have to stop thinking about them or there won't be any for sushi tomorrow.

[reyd reid reed]

43. I'd eat them all the time if I could

I usually buy one a week, or one every couple of weeks...more often when they go on sale.

And I hide them from the kids. I'm greedy when it comes to some things.

:shrug:

[idgiehkt]

48. Hi, Miss RRR

Good to see you back around these parts.

:loveya:

:hug:

[dropkickpa]

44. The one time I tried them

I hated them, they made my mouth and throat all itchy/prickly and inflamed. Of course, it turns out that I am allergic to them. Most of the people in my family are allergic. Because of this prohibition, I've always wanted to eat guacamole (the ol' want what ya can't have syndrome).

[The Traveler]

45. Avacado and guacamole

remind me of some real fun times.

:blush:

I'm just saying ...

:rofl:

[idgiehkt]

46. did those fun times include

margaritas?

or were you wearing the guacamole?

[The Traveler]

52. Let's just say

margaritas were often involved ...

:evilgrin:

[MrSlayer]

53. Never.

Yick.