avocado
As a California baby, avocados are one of my top five foods. Here are a number of favorite avocado recipes in one list – aside from guacamoles, they’re particularly wonderful in salads, on toast, and in dips, soups and purees. Avocados have a decadent creamy, potassium-rich flesh that makes them perfect for any number of preparations. Consider them a nutrition booster, because eating them in conjunction with foods that contain fat-soluble phytonutrients like lutein, make those nutrients much more available to the body.
To Select the Best Avocado
Place the avocado in the palm of your hand. Gently wrap your fingers around it, and squeeze very lightly. The flesh will give just a bit if it’s ripe. Another way to tell is to fiddle around with the little stem button; looseness indicates ripeness.
Super Onigiri
I make these little on-the-go rice balls all the time with leftover rice, and whatever fillings and seasonings are convenient and on hand. These are made with leftover sprouted brown rice and cooked mung beans. They're filled with a bit of avocado, and I made a quick almond-butter + miso slather that I hit with the broiler for a quick flash.
Coconut Quinoa Bowl
What you're looking at is a quirky, unique bowl of quinoa, with a couple of secrets. And the next time you have leftover quinoa (other other favorite grain) give it a try - coconut, garlic, almonds, kale, topped with salted yogurt and avocado.
Micro Kale Studio Salad
A vibrant spring studio salad - butter lettuce, saffron almonds, blue kale micro greens - the first at our new workspace for the shop. Plus a few treasures discovered as we fixed up the place.
Miso Tahini Soup
The miso tahini soup we had for lunch as we prepped for the Remodelista Holiday Market last weekend - it was simple, hearty, and restorative with brown rice, winter squash, and a creamy miso-tahini broth. Avocado, lemon zest, toasted nori, and chives kept things lively and beautiful up top.
A Good Winter Salad
A simple salad made with crunchy lettuces, a garlicky, melted lemon butter dressing, and shaved endives, delicata squash, avocados, and pepitas.
Poached Eggs in White Wine
Eggs poached in white wine peppered with minced shallots and herbs. A simple twist that immediately transformed the humble poached egg into something just a hint special and unexpected. Served over smashed avocado on toasted bread.
Avocado Spring Rolls
I'm posting this spring roll recipe from Morocco, they were much needed for the flight over. Rice paper wrappers with brown rice, tofu, avocado, chopped hazelnuts, and a slather of intense oregano sauce. Plus a few snapshots of the trip so far.
Tofu Amaranth Salad
A good number of you were curious about the tofu and amaranth salad pictured next to those chive pancakes I posted a few weeks back. Here's the recipe. Thanks for your patience!
Avocado Salad
A few snapshots from Mexico City & an avocado salad - thinly sliced avocado arranged over simple lentils, drizzled with oregano oil, toasted hazelnuts, and chives.
Yellow Wax Beans & Scallions
A quick sauté of yellow wax beans, golden almonds and pepitas, topped with threads of tiny micro scallions.
