avocado

This is really Crab and Avocado Roulade with Watermelon revisited, following some discussions about vegetarian/vegan alternatives to meat or fish ingredients in the The CookingBites Recipe Challenge. Its my attempt at replacing crab for a vegetarian alternative. After much deliberation, I...

I've been busy thinking up savoury recipes using melon. Melon is good combination with seafood and shellfish in particular. The fragrant melon compliments the sweet salty taste of the shellfish and in this recipe the kick of chilli gives another taste dimension. Avocado and crab is a well known...

Ingredients: ½ small marrow 2 ripe avocados, pitted 50ml lime juice 300ml orange juice 1 small chilli, seeds discarded 4 ice cubes 2 tbsp sour cream or live natural yogurt, to serve 2 lime slices, to decorate Directions: Peel the marrow, discard the seeds and cut into chunks. Cut the avocados...

I was rummaging through some old papers of my late Grannie, specifically her old recipe book which I have managed to keep hold of. My mother did have it, but her ability to cook is somewhere around the -100 on a 0-100 scale and no amount of recipes from WWII are going to help her, so when I was...

I actually have two questions about avocado's. First do you store them at room temperature or in your fridge? This confuses me because at the grocery store the avocado is displayed at room temperature. Which leads me to my second question. Is it better to buy a ripe green avocado or a...

I bought one recently thinking it was a fruit and could be eaten as such, but when I peeled it the inside was very dense and, to be honest, a bit tasteless (the texture wasn't all that pleasing to my mouth either). It looked, smelled, and tasted like a vegetable. But it has a stone, so does that...

Avocado decreases harmful cholesterol of the consumer and increases the amount of helpful cholesterol in the body. It is discovered to have a natural antibacterial component. It has 60% more potassium compared to bananas. Avocados are also rich in B vitamins that are used to treat anxiety...

Has anyone ever come across cooked avocado's before? I ask because my hubby says he wants to try a recipe he 'saw' but does not know what it is called or where he saw it. The avocado had an egg cooked in it in place of the stone... It just seems really weird to me, but you never know.