Everyday Foods Homemade: Guacamole

We hail from southern California where the avocados flow plentifully, and are usually regarded as something close to gold!  And guacamole is one of those things that is far too expensive to buy out, so we make it at home regularly....let me rephrase that...daily!  So much so that my 4 year old can make it! 

Note the price for guacamole at this restaurant.  They don’t even put a price on it, they just say “Market value” like your ordering lobster or something! Preposterous!

We barter with a friend who makes us fresh salsa and that’s a wonderful addition to the guacamole.  So this is the “recipe” (if you will) that we go by.

Homemade Guacamole

Ingredients:

2 ripe Haas avocados (we use Haas since they are creamier, and they are native to this area of southern CA)

1/2 lemon or lime +/-

1 tbsp cilantro +/-

garlic salt to taste

2 heaping tablespoons homemade salsa

Scoop out the avocado in a bowl.  Mash the avocado, then add all other ingredients.   Mix are you are ready to enjoy!

Tastes great all by itself with chips, or on top of a mushroom quesadilla.  Yum!

P.S. Salsa recipe to come soon!!! 

Day 6: 10 Things to Be Thankful for- The Sun

Being fortunate enough to reside in Southern California we get a lot of bonding time with this great luminary. If it’s cloudy for more than 2 days we’re like, “hey what’s up? We don’t live in one of those other places where the sun is an infrequent visitor! We’re Californians, and we are not used to arctic temperatures that plummet below 70!”

But there could be nothing more relaxing than lying on the beach and basking in the sun and all its glory (of course with plenty of SPF)! When I’m at the hospital all day I can’t wait to get out from those walls, and feel the warmth of the sun as it wraps its arms around me and fills me with Vitamin D! Ok slightly dramatic I know.


And it’s amazing how much it affects one’s mood. While living in the Midwest I felt really depressed and unmotivated not being able to see the sun on a regular basis. It is actually something that I think about often how I am so thankful to be back where my roots are deep in the warm southern sunshine, with flip flops. And I know that JMP enjoys her time in the sunshine taking little L for runs. Something about the sun just gives you energy and life; I mean even flowers are drawn to it! 
So go out and take a bike ride!