Sharing Life's Delights: Guacamole

Last Thursday, I decided to make guacamole for the first time ever. Pretty sad that I've never made it before seeing how much I LOVE to eat it! I was craving tacos and thought guacamole would be a perfect condiment for them so I gathered the ingredients and went to town making it (tasting along the way...my favorite part of cooking). Most the time I don't really measure my ingredients perfectly when I cook, except in baking when it is necessary to do so. My recipe is as follows...you can tweak it however you like. Enjoy!

Guacamole

Ingredients:

2 ripe avocados, pitted, peeled, and slightly mashed
1/2 of a white onion, chopped
1 jalapeno chile, minced (remove the seeds and ribs for a more mild flavor)
1 tomato, seeded and diced
1/4 cup chopped cilantro (add as much as you like...I went a tad overboard with it because I love cilantro!)
Juice from 1 lime
Coarse salt (to taste)

Directions:

In a bowl, mash the avocados slightly and add the rest of the ingredients. Mix to combine. Enjoy!

I find the easiest way to pit an avocado is to run your knife around the avocado and then twist open. Once open, make sure you have a good grip on the half with the pit and hit your knife into the pit so that it is kind of stuck in there. All you do is twist the knife and lift up and the pit is out!

An easy way to peel an avocado is to score it like so, then...

I take a large spoon and scoop out the bits. This ensures you get every last bit of avocado goodness!

It's easy to seed the tomato using a small spoon.

Make sure to take out ALL of the jalapeno seed as well as the ribs (the whiter lines you can see are still there) so that you don't burn your tongue off! I can't handle really spicy foods, but you can leave these ribs and seeds if you like the heat.

I always put my onions in the freezer for a couple minutes until I'm ready to cut them, this helps with the tears a bit. I also run it under cold water for a few seconds to calm down the enzymes that mix and then end up making you cry.