He was unhappy with how the fry cooks were slicing the avocado spring rolls.
And if all that is not enough, remember that the Aztecs thought the avocado was an aphrodisiac.
Like most fruit, the avocado ripens once plucked from the tree.
To gauge readiness, consumers often rely on a gentle squeeze: A ripe avocado has to have the right amount of "give, " according to the California Avocado Commission neither too hard nor too soft.
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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.
But if you like consumer electronics, cars, clothing, light bulbs, sneakers and the occasional avocado in February, this may not best please you.
They informed dictionary publishers of the change and that the plural was spelled "avocados, " not "avocadoes" and named their own group the California Avocado Association.
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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From vegetarian restaurants like the Dancing Avocado Kitchen (with their savoury Mexican dishes) to dance clubs like Razzle's (with their pool tables and bumping music), you'll find a perfect place for all of your passengers.
All the pieces of avocado-glazed pottery come from the nearby Snake Kiln, whose traditions date back to the Ming dynasty.
It is sunny nearly all the time, avocado is a major ingredient on nearly every menu and unlike New York, where you may see a celebrity in passing (and ignore them, since that is the New York thing to do), in LA, it is hard to go a night without rubbing elbows with someone in the "biz".
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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His California Bowl takes on brown rice and avocado in the form of paper-thin, crispy-does-it "chips" (think papadum) and a creamy-smooth dip.
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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The American housewife of postwar suburban fantasy, who had been expected to love her hours of kitchen labor as long as her fridge was the color of a lemon or an avocado and, as Wilson says, matched her cabinets, now had the time and curiosity to guess what!
The special Tuscan burger (avocado, pesto, balsamic) is a sublime confluence.
Reading my mind, somebody offered me a substance billed as chocolate mousse, the smoothness coming not from heavy whipping cream, as in the traditional recipe, but from avocado.
Grilled corn kernels, diced red onions and mango elbow each other for attention until chunks of avocado mediate and mellow the mix into a tasty salsa an unstable structure turned stable.
Trigg offers guests guacamole served in avocado halves, reminiscent of the shape of a football.
When my kimchi-less Korean taco arrived, I bit into it and was immediately met by flavourful pork, spicy but earthy Korean barbecue sauce that balanced out the smokiness from the grill, and soft, silky avocado.
Here's the recipe -- straight from the secret recipe file in Jason's avocado-shaped noggin.
There are more than 400 varieties of avocado, but Hass has become the most popular in the United States.
While based in the competitive California market, where nine major avocado handlers vie for business, it has a diversified supply with fruits also coming from Mexico, Chile, Peru, New Zealand and the Dominican Republic.
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Another way to think of avocado's role is to consider the fat marbling in a prime steak.
In addition, among the medicinal plants, garlic, cinnamon, and avocado leaves have all been found to be antagonistic to M catarrhalis.
It includes the original domestication sites for maize, pumpkin, avocado and beans.
With McDonald's behind him, he went over the distributors' heads and got a meeting with a big avocado-grower in Oxnard, Calif.
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