Avocado love

I have decided that working and blog maintaining aren't mutually exclusive. However, to maintain this blogs existence it's going to be down and dirty with less punctuation and capitalization. deal with it 3 readers of mine.


First up: the beautiful avocado mango salad that I made last night and ate again for lunch. So. So. Good.

I took a few ideas from recipes online but basically used what I had:
2 ripe avocados
1 mango
1/2 sliced onion
1 roma tomato
1/4 orange juice
1 lime juiced
salt
pepper
EVOO

toss together. eat. brag about your awesome avocado mango salad. don't share.

The neverending couscous salad

This is the story of a rained out BBQ and the couscous salad that survived.

We had planned a cookout last Friday evening and I spent the afternoon making this lovely couscous salad.

I've recently fallen in love with whole wheat couscous. The nutritional profile is pretty fantastic with 1/3 of a cup packing a whopping 7 grams of fiber and 8 grams of protein. Most importantly it's delicious, with a fluffy texture and slight nutty taste.

The salad was fantastic, I mixed chicken stock flavored couscous with black beans, corn, fresh cilantro and parsley and some grape tomatoes. I made a quick vinaigrette with lime juice and cumin. The result was divine. However, it was meant to be consumed by 10 people and instead was a side dish for 4. The flash floods had won this round.

Everything is better with garlic

If you've been spending much time around the farmers markets these days, chances are you've seen a pile of these on a table somewhere. Garlic scapes are just about my favorite thing of late spring. I was introduced to them a few years ago by my CSA.