Avocado Green Smoothie

I made a new green smoothie today.  This was my first successful attempt at a non-sweet green smoothie.  My usual green smoothie tastes like apple pie with apples, spinach, coconut milk, ginger, and cinnamon.

No traditional fruits were used to sweeten today's green smoothie.  The ingredients are:

• 1 haas avocado
• three-inch piece of cucumber, peeled
• handful of spinach
• 3/4 can of coconut milk
• five dashes of salt
• one dash of lime juice

The taste is not exciting, but simply tastes like the list of ingredients.  The coconut milk and avocado make it very creamy.  I like it because sometimes un-exciting is good!

This batch filled a salsa jar and refrigerated so I can eat it tomorrow.  I put the rest in a coffee cup for my evening snack:

Sunday Morning Breakfast

Hubby made a huge omelet, and shared some with me.  It had chopped tomatoes inside, and we put sour cream, avocado chunks, and salsa on top.  Here is my less-than-half:

Good Food, Bad Food

Warning:  crappy cell phone pictures ahead.

Good Food:  Mix two eggs with sea salt and a small amount of water, put some coconut oil in the small skillet, scramble the eggs in the skillet, spread out on a small plate to cool.  Place in small container and take it to work. Cut a Haas avocado (the small kind), scoop out the avocado into a salad bowl, stir in the eggs, and enjoy!

Bad Food:  Be the designated driver for a trip to the local Ale House with DD, DH, and cousin.  Watch them drink beer.  Order a simple hot fudge brownie sundae.  Watch them help you eat the too-sweet dessert that's too darn big:

Variation on Special Salad

Once again, I had to have a salad made with avocado.  The first time we made an avocado salad, it contained cucumbers.  Since my husband does not like cucumbers and he does like peaches, I poked around the internet to find a salad recipe that includes both avocados and peaches.  My recipe is loosely based on what I found.

• one diced  Florida avocado, a large, bright green avocado with a seed that rattles around inside when it's ready to eat
• one diced peach
• one diced orange
• three sprigs of cilantro, chopped fine
• three dashes of sea salt

The ingredients were mixed in a large bowl and chilled in the fridge.  The taste is very mild and slightly sweet, a good contrast to the mashed sweet potatoes and garlicky, grilled beef on my plate.  Click on the picture for a close-up drool, er, view:

Baked chicken, rice, and special salad

Oh, my!  Tonight's supper was especially good!  I will share some of the details with you.

We baked a whole five-pound chicken in the NuWave oven, which only took less than an hour.  Of course, it had to be emptied of the liver, etc., rinsed off, and patted dry.  Then the wings were tied together and the legs were tied together with upholstery thread because we can never seem to locate any one of at least three packets of kitchen twine.  The chicken was then coated with olive oil and sprinkled generously with poultry seasoning and trocomare (a sea salt and herb mixture).  It was baked for 20 minutes upside down, turned over, and baked another 15 minutes.

Brown rice was prepared in the small rice cooker.

The best part - I think - was the salad.  One large avocado, one tomato, one peeled cucumber, and three spring onions were chopped for a salad.  A small amount of once-fresh cilantro from the freezer was chopped and added to the mix, as was about two ounces of Italian salad dressing.  This was stirred and chilled before it was eaten.

Click on the picture to drool this meal:

One item not pictured is the dessert we made.  Two bananas, one cup of fresh blueberries, half a can of coconut milk, and several slices of fresh ginger were blended at high speed in our VitaMix.  This was poured into three dessert bowls and placed in the freezer.  When we removed the bowls from the freezer, the mixture was not frozen, but it was almost the consistency of a pudding or custard.  I could really taste the ginger, but DH only tasted the bananas.  Neither of us could taste what the other could taste the most.  That surprised me.