Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Fruit of the Month - Avocado!

Just in time for the end of March (already? dude) - the humble avocado!
I love love love avocado. Unfortunately they are generally expensive, but ocassionally you get quite good specials. These were $1.99 at my local fruit shop, but I've been buying them lately for up to $3.

Avocadoes are soft, creamy and very tasty. (To me. My dad reckons they taste of soap.) You can eat them as is, spread on toast, as guacamole, on pizza, on top of tacos, anything!

I've been trying to eat more fats like avocado to try and help the skin on my hands get better (may be too much info, but I have contact dermatitis all over my hands that will not go away. I've tried almost everything, except food, funnily enough!) This link has some nutritional info. Of course it is an official avocado website so it may be biased on the avocado's wonderfulness but I pretty much agree.
Some cherry tomatoes to add some colour would be awesome.
Tonight we made this 15 minute Creamy Avocado Pasta from Oh She Glows. It's literally just avocado, lemon juice, pepper and garlic. Yum. And it was so good. A very easy way to incorporate more avocado into my diet. I hope it makes a difference, alongside everything else I'm doing.

(The pasta dish cost 80c per serve for me to make, by the way).

2 comments:

jess said...

oh yum! I have all these ingrediants here to, might make that tomorrow for dinner!

Hannah said...

I've spent a lot of my life hating avocado but have recently come to realise that they can be slightly amazing in the right context. I might have to try this pasta!