Boreegard's Guacamole

I got this from Mike O'Neil a few weeks back and though you might enjoy it.

Boreegard Considers Guacamole and Its International Ramifications

"Mi Esposa once upon a time did not care for guacamole. But after a vacation in Mexico, en Jalisco—Puerto Vallarta—where at table we were served a constant supply of it morning, noon and night—she admitted to actually looking forward to it.

Its main ingredient, of course, is avocado. Craig Claiborne had this to say about that:

The history of the avocado in the New World is traced to Hernando Cortes, who, in 1519, found the avocado flourishing in or around what is now Mexico City. The name, which dates from that time, derives from a Nahuatl (a group of Mexican and Central American tribes that include the Aztecs) word ahuacatl. The Spanish transliterated that into aguacate, which does not mean, as many suppose, “lawyer”. Later on, when the French borrowed the name of the fruit, they did name it avocet which is French for lawyer.

Ah, but screw all that history stuff. Here’s a recipe for guacamole that I mixed together on Super Bowl Sunday 43, that is far superior to the bland store-bought dip.

Group One
1 tsp. lime juice
1 tsp. lemon juice
Salt and pepper to taste
3 tbsp. finely chopped tomato
2 tbsp. finely chopped onion
2 tbsp. diced mild green chilis (Chi-Chi’s)
2 cloves garlic—minced and finely chopped
A dusting of ground cumin

Group Two
2 or 3 ripe avocados.

TO DO

Put group one in a bowl.
Place group two in the same bowl and mash and mix the hell out of it.

Cover and put in the refrigerator for a while to let it settle and blend properly. Here’s a tip I learned years ago from Bob and Margie Lyon, our Tex/Mex amigos who currently live in El Paso. Place the pits from said avocados on top of this goop before you pop it into the frig. This keeps it from discoloring into a loathsome gray.

Then eat—scooped onto tortilla chips, corn chips, Fritos, potato chips, crackers, in the crook of your index finger, whatever!

By the by, I can think of NO international ramifications inherent in guacamole. Perhaps you can."

Boreegard Feb. 1, 2009