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June 04, 2004

Trailing avocados of glory

Guacamole tacos ahoy! Though the supermarket avocados were small and not terribly flavorful, this still proved itself to be an excellent and decadent idea. I can't wait to try it out with better ingredients.

Along with the tacos of sin, we had a salad featuring greens from our first CSA delivery. There were pea shoots, which were especially delicious, and in fact the whole thing, though in appearance not so different from what we can get at the local co-op or Whole Paycheck, was wonderfully fresh-tasting. I also had a nice email exchange with the farmer about some delivery location confusion and the tastiness of the pea shoots. It is a wonderful world in which one can email one's farmer to say how much you enjoyed your salad. I foresee that this CSA thing is going to be well worth our while. And I still just find CSAs to be a wonderful idea for how family farming can be made to be worthwhile for the farmers. I hope it works as well for them as I like to imagine it does.

Posted by redfox at June 04, 2004 09:11 AM (dinner reports) | Comments (5)

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So, back in the 80's my family was in upstate NY. Well on our way to the house we rented for the summer we went to the market, and there spotted one undammaged, ripe avocado!
On checking out the chekcer grabbed it, swipped it, and tossed in in the bag. He then asked what was that anyway?

The answer is of course "It WAS an avocado."

Posted by eel at June 5, 2004 11:14 AM

That is indeed a tragic tale. I need to come to California soon, and eat a lot of avocados while I'm there.

Posted by redfox at June 6, 2004 05:54 PM

That is a very sad story, Eel. Maybe he could break a bottle of Monoplova while he's at it.

Posted by Steve at June 6, 2004 06:03 PM

Are these guacamole tacos just (just!?) guacamole shoved into a fried tortilla, or is something else in there? (And did I ever mention how much we enjoyed the raita / corn / tomato salad dinner?)

Posted by Ray at June 8, 2004 09:56 AM

Yep, just guacamole in a fried tortilla. Simple and elegant, is it not? This batch of guacamole had a few chopped cherry tomatoes in it, but next time I think I'll leave those out.

Thanks very much -- I can't take credit for the tomato-corn-raita combination, as it was my friend and erstwhile flatmate A. who introduced me to it. Man, I can't wait until corn and tomatoes are in season again.

Posted by redfox at June 10, 2004 09:11 AM