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From: wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin )
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Subject: Re: need guacamole recipe
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Date: Fri, 18-Jan-85 13:15:59 EST
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The posted guacamole recipe had no hot pepper or other source of hotness;
I've grown used to expecting some form of jalapeno in my guacamole, but
maybe I've been warped by the midwestern variety of Tex-Mex...

Anyway, here's my simple and quick guacamole recipe; probably totally
inauthentic, but easy and rapid:

Halve one ripe avocado, remove seed, scoop out meat into bowl, scraping
the rind to be sure you get all of the ripest part. Sprinkle salt over
the avocado meat and add a squirt of lemon or lime juice (either fresh
or from that bottle in your refrigerator) (don't use the sweetened "drink"
lime juice, like Rose's) and mash it all together with a fork. (It should
remain somewhat lumpy.) Then spoon in hot or medium salsa to taste. This
can be Old El Paso taco sauce, or, better, one of the varieties of "chunky"
salsa -- the more onion and pepper bits you get in, the better. Stir.
You can add sour cream if you like that in your guacamole, but I think it's
better without doing that.

(I've been trying the various brands of salsa that show up at local markets
and, surprisingly, the Old El Paso salsa is just about as good as any, and
better than some. If anyone has done any detailed comparisons of these
commercial brands, and also compared them with homemade, please post a
review!)

Anyway, that's all. It's ready for use as a topping or to eat with chips.
(Hint: nuke your chips a minute in the microwave first, especially if
you can find the restaurant-style real tortilla chips.)

Will Martin

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