Other premium items are an avocado-and-wasabi burger, a truffle-porcini-and-chicken sandwich and lobster salad.
Mash an avocado with a pinch of salt and a drizzle of oil, and you'll find it an ideal condiment and flavor conduit for nearly any meal.
And if all that is not enough, remember that the Aztecs thought the avocado was an aphrodisiac.
To lower calories and heighten the nutritional profile of baked goods, the California Avocado Commission recommends substituting mashed avocado for an equal measure of butter or shortening in muffins, quick breads and even brownies.
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Avocado farmers have formed an export company and set up a sales office in Paris.
Afterwards, we grabbed an organic sandwich (with plenty of avocado) at Urth Caffe in Santa Monica, also frequented by Vincent Chase and his gang on the HBO show Entourage.
The company has a proprietary ProRipeVIP avocado ripening program, which uses an acoustic firmness sensor to measure the firmness of fruit and deliver evenly-ripened avocados.
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In his rustic home tucked between orange and avocado groves, Cunningham wearily recalls wrangling with Roski over an odd 1, 200-acre piece of unincorporated land known as the "donut hole" because it is surrounded on all sides by Redlands.
An ordinary salad of greens, tomatoes and raw veggies turns almost decadent with slices of avocado.
The U.S. avocado supply has roughly tripled since the mid-1990s, says Roberta Cook, an agricultural economist at the University of California, Davis, based on analysis of U.S. Department of Agriculture data.
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There is no reason to think that avocado, garlic, or any other plant can be used in place of or even as an adjunct to antibiotics.
Try both the fried avocado tacos with vegetarian, refried beans and the Dirty Sanchez (name aside, it is an appetizing combination of scrambled eggs, chillies, guacamole and escabeche carrots) and the Green Chile Queso, which comes topped with guacamole and cilantro.
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