How To Make Guacamole

If you saw Lori and I comparing avocados last week, you heard her say we were making guacamole. Well here it is. This is the recipe that convinced me I like guacamole. I just don't like the bad guacamole I had tried before. (There's a video embedded in this post. If you can't see it in your email or feed reader, come see it on the blog.) … [Read more...]

Bacon Avocado vs. Haas Avocado

Most people are familiar with the Haas avocado. Lori and I try a Bacon avocado -- that's the name of the variety, there's no pork products in it (darn) -- to see if it would be good for guacamole. … [Read more...]

How To Pit and Peel an Avocado

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How To Make Black Bean and Corn Salsa

Be careful making this, unless it looks like something you're going to want to keep doing over and over. Because as soon as you share it with friends, they're going to start asking you to bring it to every party you go to. This happened when I made the bruschetta pizza a couple of years ago. I made it about four or five times before the summer was over. Same with this black bean and corn salsa. … [Read more...]

Where Do You Get Your Recipes?

Some people think coffee table books have to have big, pretty pictures. They haven't seen my coffee table. It's covered with old cookbooks my wife has picked up at garage sales and antique stores. Some of the most popular posts here -- perfect brownies, banana cake, peach cobbler -- started out from one of these books. Where do you get your recipes? (You can choose one or two answers.) … [Read more...]