Coffee and avocados.
This is a common snack for me.
When we have avocados. We went on vacation and emptied our house of all fresh produce before we left, so nothing would go to waste. And then we didn't go grocery shopping for like a week after we got back.
Torture.
But alas, I got some avocados on Monday evening (today is Wednesday) and all of them at the store were hard and bright green. A few days yet until they would be ripe. No matter- they were a good price so I loaded up. Me and baby boy love them.
I put about 5 in a lunch bag so they'd ripen faster, and the other 5 I set on top the bananas in the fruit hammock. I had heard that you should put a banana in the brown bag with the avocados to get them to ripen up, but I was afraid the banana would turn brown and be wasted, so usually it's just avocados alone in the brown bag. This normally works fine. When I'm a normal-amount of patient, and not avocado deprived, and starving.
I kept testing them, off and on throughout the day whenever I'd get hungry. I would even squeeze them through the bag so as not to let any of the precious ethylene gas slip out. We need all of it so those avocados would hurry up already. They're still hard. Still another day or two at least.
On a whim, however, I tested one from the bananas.
This one was ripe!
Happy dance!
So. All that to say they ripen even faster outside the brown bag and sitting friendly with the bananas. So I will be ripening them in the fruit hammock from now on. Good thing too, because my brown bag has really seen better days. An avocado a day since the boy was born (14 months ago) and me in and out of the bag... you can just imagine what kind of shape it's in.
And just because I had a friend ask me hows the best way to get the pit out of the avocado, and I'd spent the first 6 months or better of my daily avocado-eating just eating around it til it popped out until I learned this trick, I'll share it with you as I did him.
Slice around the avocado. Hold each side and twist them in opposite directions. If your avocado is ripe, it should just pop right apart, with pit attached to one side.
Then gently but firmly press the knife into the pit. I have tried firmly smacking it, but have often ended up with an unsightly slice where I missed. I'm too OCD for that, so I just press it in.
Then rotate the knife, mimicking the motion you made when you opened the avocado. The pit should pop right out.
There you go! Grab a spoon and the salt-shaker and enjoy.
Or top your salad or sandwich or whatever with it.
Or feed it to your baby.
Or whatever.
Key word: enjoy.
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Wednesday, October 2, 2013
Tuesday, October 1, 2013
Counting 1000 Blessings - October 2013
1 823 Tiny
furrowed brow as Daddy reads
824 vine
ripened tomatoes
825 Almost
all of my mugs have a sweet face attached to them. This one came from my sweet
friend Auburn .
So it makes coffee time all the more precious.
2 826 Chatter
on baby monitor
827 Text
from friend
828 Laundry
basket and socks
3 829 Clouds
race across predawn sky
830 Serving
with hands
831
goodbyes
4 832 Sister
good-mornings
833 Flock
of birds rise in unison
834 Cookies
for my men (and the new Scentsy warmer I scored at a garage sale today!!!)
5 835 French
vanilla coffee
836 Secrets
837 Barbie
sighting
6 838 Curls,
coffee and online church
839Work
completed
840 Wrestling
on the floor
7 841 Pink
jeans
842 The
daddy who teaches his girls how to be girly is the best kind of daddy. Thanks
to my daddy who taught me how to paint my nails.
843 Amber
glow of sunset on neatly cut harvest rows
8 844 Homemade
applesauce! No sugar added, just the way we like it... only wish it would've
made more. This was a whole bag of apples
845 Mr. Boy
thought he was pretty big stuff at the Library. He got himself out of the
stroller and helped himself to the books.
846 God
makes such pretty things. Another #nofilter sky.
9 847 Little
boy footprints in sand
848 Boy
with red balloon
849
“chance” meetings at the park
10 850 Boy hair
static from playground slide
851 Baby
chatter and belly laughs
852 Ivan and daddy make pizza together
11 853 Passing
baby off to mom – love being the mom in this situation finally
854 Cleaned
pantry
855 Grocery
shopping with my guys. I actually do love this
12 856 Russian tea and Beth Moore. Perfect morning.
857 Tiny hands in prayer
858 Legacy & news
13 859 lovely
leaves
860 sigh of
sleeping baby
861 knock
of wind
14 862 Baby
steps
863 Scent
of fireplace
864 French
toast
15 865 my Beth Moore
lesson from yesterday... there was so much info I decided to go back over it
today before I jump in on this weeks homework. (And a sadly unmarked page in my
Bible- guess I'll need to spend some more time in 1 Kings)
866 Isaac’s
Storm – a favorite that was recommended to me years ago by an old friend.
Picked it up again this summer. I *will* get it finished before it goes back to
the library!
867 Jesus Storybook Bible
16 868 happy
sounds coming from the baby room
869 thank
you cards
870
spaghetti and small group
17 871 golden
sun on scarlet leaves
872 moon
large
873 one
thousand birds
18 874 blond
hair poking out from under hat
19 877 Sharing
Bible books
878 family
879
laughter
20 880 new words
881 birds
on the roof
882 row of
geese
21 883 cilantro
885 splash
of late evening sun
887 family
dinner
888 news
23 889 gathering
891 opening
our home
24 892
breathtaking autumn
893fluttering
flag
894 harvest
896 Antique
store and garage sales
26 898 Saturday adjustment
899
groceries
900 home
27 901 sunrise
over frost
903 Bible
and Beth Moore with the sunrise out the window. ♡
28 904 cows at
twilight
905 drops
of rain
29 907 eating
crackers on the floor
908 soup
picnic
909 lazy Tuesday
morning
30 910 happy
birthday to a friend
911 new
words and rain
31 913 washing
tables
914canopy
of rain