Avocado Love Part 2

Along with Meg, I am also experiencing a love affair with avocados. (Like the Avocado Green I'm writing this in?!)  

Avocados are simply amazing.  I'm embarrassed to admit it, but I had never tried them up until a few years ago.  That's when I went to my now-favorite restaurant, momocho.  This is a modern Mexican restaurant, and guacamole is one of their signature appetizers.  In fact, you'd be downright foolish to go to momocho and not sample it.  There's a basic guacamole which is fantastic, but then there are also more heavenly combinations: guacamole with goat cheese and tomato, with blue crab and corn, with pineapple and jicama.  I was hesitant about trying the guacamole at all, but my parents ordered a sampler on the first time we went to momocho and I fell in love.  Eating their guacamole is truly like eating the best thing in the world.  It is silky, flavorful and filling without being heavy.  It tastes so fresh.

Needless to say, after momocho, I fell in love with avocados.  I have since made my own guacamole at home on numerous occasions (pretty impossible to mess-up and insanely easy to personalize....mash your avocados, add salt, chopped onion, garlic or tomatoes and anything else you think would be fabulous! Don't forget to add some lemon juice so the avocados don't brown...)  

I have also been to restaurants where guacamole is a featured spread on the sandwich, instead of the ever-upsetting mayo.  I'm not a mayonnaise fan, and I doubt I ever will be.  But can I tell you how fantastic a layer of guacamole on a turkey, cheese and bacon sandwich was?? Thank you, bistro in Boston, for introducing me to yet another versatile use of the avocado!

I also eat slices of avocados on top of soup.  Layer some on top of a spicy tortilla soup, and you get cool and creamy mixed with hot and spicy.  Ahhhhhh....I need to whip up some soup as soon as it gets cooler!

And when Meg texted me that she was eating avocado gelato, my mouth immediately watered.  I am dying to try this! I've never had avocados in a sweet sense, only savory, but I can imagine how fabulous it must be.

Yay for avocados!