Avocado Madness

Somehow we have had over 20 avocados in our refrigerator this weekend.  We're now down to 15.  Raley's had a weekend only sale for 50 cent avocados....obviously we had to stock up!!

I am an avocado addict.  Whether it is spread on crackers, cubed into a salad or whipped into an delectable guacamole, if it is in front of me, I will down it within 5.3 seconds{scientifically proven}.

Not only are avocados tasty, they pack a punch when it comes to health benefits.  They are good for your heart and have anti-cancer benefits.  For more health information check out the California Avocado website.

With the spring like weather we've been blessed with in the Central Valley, I have been on a HUGE salad kick {exhibits A,  B & C} and decided to create an avocado based salad dressing for dinner tonight.  I had big dreams for avocado mixed with blue cheese & bacon, when I was reminded that Gary hates blue cheese {if I had only known this before we were married}.  So I took it as a challenge to also create a spicy avocado dressing for Gary.  Double Schwing!!  <---please tell me you get this reference so I don't feel old.

Avo Blue Bacon Dressing Ingredients

Avo Blue Bacon Dressing

Ingredients:
1 Large Avocado
1/4 Cup Greek Yogurt {or sour cream}
1/4 Cup Milk
1/4 Cup Crumbled Blue Cheese
1 TB cooked & crumbled bacon
Dash of Pepper

Directions:
Cut Avocado in half and scoop the "meat" into a bowl.
Add yogurt, milk & blue cheese
Mix everything together until smooth.
Add bacon & pepper and mix again.

Avo Blue Bacon Dressing on spinach w/ walnuts & extra bacon

Spicy Avocado Dressing Ingredients

Spicy Avocado Dressing

Ingredients:
1 Large Avocado
1/4 Cup Greek Yogurt {or sour cream}
1/4 Cup Milk
1/4 to 1/2 Cup Prepared Salsa
Dash of Pepper

Directions:
Cut Avocado in half and scoop the "meat" into a bowl.
Add yogurt, milk, salsa and pepper
Mix everything together until smooth.

Spicy Avocado Dressing on spinach

These dressings both turned out super chunky and extremely delicious!

I'll be posting some more avocado recipes these next few weeks, so stay tuned!

***Are you an avocado fan?***

Creamy Honey Mustard Dressing

Food ideas come to me all the time.  It's finding the time to create them in real life that is the problem for me!  Well, last night I felt like Einstein when I created this easy, creamy, honey mustard dressing.

The FFA at my high school was hosting a tri-tip dinner, which I originally planned on not participating in...I was going to come home and make dinner.  But after a crazy Friday, I finally gave in and had them wrap up 2 meals for Gary & I to enjoy at home.

This is what the meal looked like when I brought it home:

I was super hungry though and felt like I needed more veggies, so I decided to turn my meal into a salad.  The dressing they provided had way too many ingredients that I could not pronounce, so I came up with my own dressing using these 3 ingredients.

Local raw honey, organic mustard, and natural sour cream.  I like this sour cream because it has 2 ingredients {and I can pronounce them both}.

Here's what I did {approximately, because I did not measure}:

2 to3 TB Sour Cream

2 to 3 TB Mustard

Combine both in a small bowl and mix, mix, mix.

Add a tiny bit of honey and mix, mix, mix some more.

This was the end result:

I then chopped up some salad from the fridge into a big bowl, added the salad I got with my meal, cut up and added  the tri-tip, then spooned on my dressing creation.  I think that this would also make a good marinade for chicken.

Dang, it was delicious and totally hit the spot!

Gary didn't want a huge salad, but he was kind enough to try out my dressing on his small salad and said he really liked it.  Bonus points!

We ate while we watched Contagion.  I was afraid to see the movie, because I thought it would turn me into more of a germaphobe, but thankfully it did not!  I did get this funny picture before we started the movie...Gary had placed Contagion right by the Clorox container he used all last week while he was sick!

***What is your favorite salad dressing?***

***See any good movies recently?****