Snick Snack

I had two food adventures yesterday.  Adventure one – dinner with the in-laws.  I will tell you, it is a true sign of love to go to dinner at someone’s house when you have to bring your own food.  Especially when they are eating food you truly enjoy.  But we survived.  The comical mishap of the night?  They use pre-planned menus and the vegetable on the menu was carrots.  They substituted green beans thinking carrots were on my forbidden list, green beans were okay.  Oops.  We had fun anyway.  I brought stew, which I enjoyed, and the conversation was worth the inconveniences.

My second food adventure was the Super Bowl!  I confess, I am not much of a sports fan.  I normally do not enjoy watching games of any kind on television.  But I live in Washington State.  How could I not watch?  The problem is – an event like that deserves some kind of snack, preferably munchies.  And there is no bagged snack I know that is on my okay list.  (If there was, I think I would have found it by now.)  So I had to get creative.  I made another batch of my sweet potato chips – only cut a little thicker to allow them to stand up to a dip.  A dip?  Oh, yes, I had one.  Guacanole.  No, I didn’t mis-spell it.  Guacamole is avocados with a lot of additions, like peppers and diced tomatoes, and other really yummy things I cannot have.  So I made Guacanole.  A wannabe version with none of the bad stuff, but plenty of flavor.  It’s a good creamy dip, and it’s made with healthy stuff – so although I feel a little bad about eating three avocados at once, I don’t feel TOO bad about it. 

Today I’m going to have another food adventure – eating while travelling.  I am on my way to Portland, Oregon to see my parents.  While there I will NOT be able to eat what they have on hand.  They have already warned me of that.  So I will have to bring my own food.  Two days’ worth.  It will be another adventure.

Happy snacking!

Guacanole

3-4 small or 1-2 large avocados

Garlic powder to taste

Onion powder to taste

Mash avocados coarsely.  You want them mostly creamy, but chunks are not a bad thing.  Add garlic powder and onion powder and blend well.  Taste then probably add more garlic and onion powder.  Blend well and taste again.  Two things to remember – one, the longer this sits the more the flavors will come out but the more it will brown as well.  Two, if you haven’t scraped the bowl, you haven’t blended it as well as you need to.

NOTE:   If you are testing citrus – a little lime juice works well for keeping the guacamole from browning.