Help with avacados, please

[Shmoopie]

I bought an avacado today. I've never had one before and I hear they taste pretty strange. Can somebody please tell me what to do to this thing to make it taste good? :p One friend told me to squeeze a lime over it and pour salt on it. I don't like that idea lol
What else can I do?

Thanks in advance.

[JennaBoBenna]

mash it up with lemon and salt and salsa to make a guacamole? :)
Uhm...you can put it into fruit smoothies...
Alissa has some recipes in her book..one is a lemon pudding, there's also avocado chutney. You can add agave and carob powder to make a chocolate pudding. i think the recipe is on this board somewhere :)

[lily]

Avocadoes have to be one of my most favourite foods! It's important to make sure that the avocado is ripe -- it needs to 'give' a little as you press it, particularly round the stem end. If it's still hard, leave it out at room tempeature for a day or two until it's ripened up. Putting an avocado in a fruit bowl surrounded by bananas and/or a pineapple helps it to ripen a bit more quickly. Once it's really ripe, you can store it for a few days in the fridge. Then ...

Halve it, take out the stone and eat it straight out of the skin with a teaspoon -- you can put a few drops of olive oil and cider vinegar and sprinkling of celtic sea salt and pepper into the cavity if you like. If it's really ripe, the flesh will be almost like butter.

That reminds me -- you can spread the buttery flesh on crackers just like um well, butter -- but sooooo much nicer...

Cut it up and mix it with tomatoes, sliced onion and black olives for a Greek-type salad...

Add it to any salad -- I love it in green salad.

Add it to a burger, on top of the tomatoes etc

Whizz it with garlic, a few drops of vinegar and seasoning for a perfect thick green mayonnaise...

It can also supply the cream element in a fruit fool or cheesecake -- there are recipes in Alissa's book and others...

There are tons of things you can do with it, I could go on and one, but maybe these few simple ideas will get you started.

Just enjoy ... I eat at least two big ones most days..... yum

lilly

[tvillemom]

My favorite way to eat avo's is to dice it with about 1/2 tomato (or more to taste), about 1/2 an onion, salt, cumin and some chili pepper or cayenne (just a dash, depending on how hot you like it). My own guacamole, but better than what's at the Mexi. restaurant....I can sit and eat a whole batch with a spoon!! I will warn you, when I first tried avo's, I thought YUCK, what's the big deal, but when I went raw, and had the right recipe, I've begun to crave them and eat about 1 per day. Good luck!
Wendi

[ljannise]

I just ate a bunch of cantelope & some bananas w/almond butter & NOW you have my mouth watering for my unripened avas.

hehehe

Arent they DIVINE?? I cant beleive I stayed away from them for so long!!

[sport]

My favorite way is to mash it and add some finely chopped onion and some Herbamere Spicy and then put it on crackers with sliced tomatoes.

[sport]

I just ate a bunch of cantelope & some bananas w/almond butter & NOW you have my mouth watering for my unripened avas.

hehehe

Arent they DIVINE?? I cant beleive I stayed away from them for so long!!
I hope that you don't mind if I point out that you are not supposed to mix melon with any other food. It should be eaten alone at least half an hour left before eating something else.

[JMD]

I LOVEEEEEEEEe avocado blended with lemon or lime juice and some cilantro cuke or parsley and cuke. I use it as a dressing for my bitter baby greens..MAKES ME EAT THEM UP!! Give it time..i hateddddddd them before, but when an avo is RIPE it is AWESOMEEEEEEEEE!!!

:)Keep trying it!!
JMD

[Alwaystriving]

Uh, I just bought a banana. What do I do with it?
Shmoopy, When the avo feels a little soft cut it in half, scoop out the innards and enjoy.

[squidly]

I love avoccado spread over crackers and topped with tomato and cucumber then eat

in food processor with dried coconut, couple dates and juice of a lemon for a pudding

in salad

guacamole dip - avocado, one garlic clove, juice of one lemon and a tomato all mixed

[juliebove]

I can't tell you what to do to make it taste good. I haven't yet found a way to make them edible. For me, it's not necessarily the flavor but the weird, oily texture. I think they are one of those foods that you either love or hate.

[ljannise]

I hope that you don't mind if I point out that you are not supposed to mix melon with any other food. It should be eaten alone at least half an hour left before eating something else.

I did wait. I had the munchies an hour later. It was still considered lunch, hehe

[Shivananda]

I'm sitting here eating a delicious avocado for lunch with clover sprouts and a spritz of tamari, on sunseed crackers, and I just have to say...

1) It's AVO not AVA

2) Try thin slices on your salad or sammich, or add a little to a blended venegar/oil slad dressing for a creamy texture

3) They grow on you, no kidding

4) If you still don't like them after trying for a while, no problem. As my dad used to say, all the more for ME! :)

[ljannise]

I can call it whatever I want. I'm not commiting a sin by calling it an AVA. I'm in the South so it was just slang.

[Shmoopie]

Thanks all for your responses. I'm still a little creeped out by it. I don't know why. I'll probably try it in a smoothie before anything else.
You guys crack me up though! Tim, don't make me answer your banana question haha!
Thanks again all!

[Cinnamon]

I love making guacamole with them, and Alissa's chocolate pudding and also the Black Forest Cake are wonderful. My 85 year old mom loves them in a salad with grapefruit and I remember her making this type of salad when I was a little girl. And my Grandmother always had an avocado seed growing in water in her kitchen window, what a fun memory that popped into my mind reading this thread!

[Conscious Midwife]

Slice and add to favorite cracker or on pita or as a garnish for a salad.

Mash and add assorted herbs, plus extra garlic, cracked red pepper

Mix with Salsa and dip tortilla chips in it

[purtyflowrr]

I LOVEEEEEEEEe avocado blended with lemon or lime juice and some cilantro cuke or parsley and cuke. I use it as a dressing for my bitter baby greens..MAKES ME EAT THEM UP!! Give it time..i hateddddddd them before, but when an avo is RIPE it is AWESOMEEEEEEEEE!!!

:)Keep trying it!!
JMD

i used to looooooove avos....but now i seem to hate them. so i guess i'll take your advice and give it time. i don't know why my taste for them changed. so odd.