I <3 Avocados

I LOVE AVOCADOS. They are yummy, nutritious, and filling.

Fun fact: an avocado contains more potassium than a banana. 

As much as I would love to say that I love avocados because they are healthy ... the reality is that I love them because they just taste so good. If we're friends, you'll know that I always have a craving for comfort food. For some reason, avocados taste like comfort food to me. So actually, I'm just lucky that they're good for you.

In any case, since I eat avocados pretty much everyday, I figured I would share my favourite ways to eat them.

I rarely measure ingredients precisely when I'm making food so I can't attest to how much of anything I'm really using. The exception to this is when I'm baking - I'm always very exact with all my measurements.

1. Avocado on toast.

Aside from cereal and granola with yogurt, avocado on toast is probably my #1 go-to breakfast. It's quick and easy to make - perfect for mornings before work.

I use one avocado for two pieces of toast. After I mash up the avocado in a bowl, I add in some lemon juice, garlic powder, black pepper, and salt, and then mix it all together. I spread that onto my toast ... and I'm good to go!

Banana AND avocado.

Sometimes, I like to get a bit fancier on the weekends. I add in some chopped up red onion to my usual avocado mix, and then I top it up with some chopped up grape tomatoes, green onions, and eggs.

I love eggs benny :) (almost as much as avocados)

2. Baked eggs in avocados.

This one is another one of my breakfast favourites - tastes great and looks nice too. It takes a bit longer (since you have to wait for the eggs to bake), so I usually save this one for a weekend morning.

To make room for the egg, I scoop out a bit of the avocado. Fear not! The excess does not go to waste. I usually mix up the avocado in a separate bowl and then save it for later to dip my crackers in as a snack. I bake them in my toaster oven because I don't want to bother preheating my standard oven. I keep the avocados in the toaster oven until the eggs whites solidify. Once they're ready, I top them with some sriracha sauce, salt & black pepper, and paprika.

Sriracha makes everything better.

3. Avocado in salad.

If you follow me on Instagram (@lamcj), then you've probably seen this picture already.

This was a quinoa salad with chicken, red peppers, red & green onions, baba ganoush ... and avocado! Avocado added to chickpea salads and green salads are also awesome.

4. Avocado sauce on zoodles.

I almost feel like this deserves a blog post on its own. I only discovered zucchini noodles (aka zoodles) recently when I bought a spiralizer. I found one sale for $12, and figured why not? Turns out it's super useful and easy to use.

All you have to do is chop off one end of a zucchini and feed it into the spiralizer in a twisting motion. I cook the zoodles on a pan with some olive oil, salt, and black pepper until they become soft. To make the avocado sauce, I chop up an avocado, then add it to my magic bullet with some water, lemon juice, salt, and pepper. I would've added in some cilantro to the mix too, but I didn't have any that day. Once that's all blended together, I just scoop it out onto my zoodles.

Lots of love for this green duo.

5. Guacomole!

This one is a given. I mean, who doesn't love guac? 

I make mine with: avocado (obviously!), lime juice, cilantro, roma tomatoes, white onions, minced garlic, salt, and black pepper. If I'm not having this with nachos, then I'm most likely having it in some tacos :)