TheBanyanTree: Quacamole

Monique Colver monique.colver at gmail.com
Fri Mar 4 12:40:14 PST 2011


Andrew made me cookies yesterday. Just 3, from frozen dough we buy from
kids. He ate 1 and left 2 ln the counter for me.

Last night he asked if I'd had any. I said no. Then we both looked at ash.
He looked at us like "what?" Then went back to his toy.
On Mar 4, 2011 12:16 PM, "Mike Pingleton" <pingleto at gmail.com> wrote:
> This reminds me of making Ranger Cookies. Almost everything can go in
> the mixer - the butter, white and brown sugar, the eggs, flour,
> oatmeal, chocolate chips, even the coconut - but when it comes to the
> Rice Krispies (I actually use Coco-Krispies), those must be gently
> mixed in by hand. Crunching up the krispy cereal defeats the purpose,
> so I plunge my (clean) hands in the bowl and incorporate them evenly.
> I can't say I've noticed whether the butter softens my hands....
>
> Okay, now I want cookies....
>
> On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 10:36 AM, TLW <tlwagener at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I make a KILLER guacamole.  Everbuddy knows it.  It so good, there is
never
>> any left.  Because I cheat.
>>
>> I add some cream cheese and sometimes greek yogurt.  And I read/heard
>> somewhere years ago that the best way to get all the lumps out is to mix
it
>> up with your hands, like you would the ingredients of meat loaf.  So I
do.
>>  I mush it about and squeeze it through my fingers and make silly-string
>> sorts of structures and designs in the bowl till it is smooth and hardly
>> guacamole at all, but avocado dip.  Then I lick my hands.  Then I rinse
>> them.  They are so, so soft. A bonus.
>>
>> It's just as well that I do not attempt this table side, I think.
>>
>> But I DO add a tight curl of the thin skin off a tomato on top of the
green
>> pile as a garnish.  It looks like a lil rosebud. People always 'ooh' and
>> 'ahh' when it is presented.
>>
>> But, really, it's still best I do it in private.
>>
>> xoxoSidda
>>



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