Avocado Shopping

We also ought to be banned from buying avocados, as I can never catch that minute between green, alligator-skinned rocks and smooshy mess, and I feel ridiculously wasteful every time I throw them away. We were better off in China, when we would carry our avocados and gouda back from Jenny Lou’s, and then wait, checking the avocados for that perfect sandwich ripeness each time before we went out for dumplings.

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Random Guacamole

Stick and I need to be banned from buying avocados. We can never manage to eat them all in the 5 seconds after the avocados ripen and before they go bad. Seriously. I have wasted so many avocados (even in Beijing where buying avocados means a crosstown trip to Jenny Lu's and a lot of money) by missing the window.

Anyway, the other night I saw that we had 2 perfectly ripe avocados and tortilla chip but no guac mix.

2 perfecly ripe avocados
1 lime (yes, I had a lime kicking around)
1/4 white onion, finely minced
garlic salt to taste
a dash of paprika

I juiced the lime, and mixed everything up in a bowl. The end.

Stick said it was the best guacamole ever, and I was worried that I couldn't replicate my tasty experiment. But I have, so now here is the What I Have In The Fridge Guac for you to try, too.