Image credit: roboppy

Ingredients:
1 avocado, peeled and pitted
2 tablespoons sugar
1/2 cup milk (or add more till you reach your desired consistency)
Crushed Ice

Procedure:
Add all ingredients in a blender. Stir before serving. Pour into a tall glass. Serve cold. Enjoy!

To make your Avocado Shake even tastier, you can add 2 scoops of ice cream into the mix too. Also try adding bananas for an even sweeter, creamier flavor to your shake. You can also enjoy this beverage by freezing it, then putting the frozen avocado mix into a blender. It then makes for a great Avocado Slush that’s even more refreshing. Perfect for a summer day!

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A Refreshing Avocado Shake Recipe

Wholly Guacamole is celebrating by giving away a free Wholly Guacamole Snack Pack. Simply eat lunch or dinner at any Schlotzsky’s restaurants nationwide on September 16 and receive one free, Wholly Guacamole 2 oz, 100 calorie Snack Packs with each Schlotzsky’s sandwich, pizza or wrap purchase.

Wholly Guacamole will also have a coupon in this Sunday’s paper for $1.50 off Wholly Guacamole, so if you’re a fan be on the lookout.

Guacamole is a good for you snack, check it out:

Made from fresh avocados, ounce-per-ounce it’s packed with nutrients—touting 60 percent more potassium than bananas—and loaded with lutein which protects against prostate cancer and eye diseases says the food scientist at Wholly Guacamole, Marcia Walker.

Studies show that the “good fats” in avocados effectively reduce cholesterol levels. And now, researchers at Ohio State University’s Comprehensive Cancer Center say that avocados have cancer fighting power, against oral cancer and possibly other types of cancer.

Guacamole was originally invented by the Aztecs as a nutritious snack. In fact, three tablespoons of all natural guacamole with a hand full of carrots has just 94 calories—that’s less than a cup of low-fat milk!

Check out how to make the guacamole football field pictured above, it would make a great addition to your football parties this fall.

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Celebrate National Guacamole Day

Here’s how today’s wrap turned out. I have the instructions here to make one, but you can just as easily make 5 or 10:

Image (c) L Gerlach

Black Bean Corn Avocado Wraps

• 1/3 cup black beans (drained)
• 1 large flour tortilla (I picked up some jalapeno-cilantro flavored tortillas at the store they were yummy)
• 1/4 cup frozen corn
• 1 tsp onion
• 1/2 of an avocado (diced)
• 2 cherry tomatoes sliced in half, or a couple sections from a regular tomato
• a pinch of fresh cilantro

You could also add salsa or sour cream to this.

These are so easy to make:

1. Combine the beans and corn and warm them in the microwave for about a minute, or until they’re heated through. I also heat my tortilla for about 15 seconds, just to warm it up.
2. Layer all of the ingredients onto the flour tortilla and wrap it up.

Enjoy!

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Quick Lunch~ Black Bean Corn Avocado Wraps

Beef Avocado Cheese Sandwich (© Dexie Wharton)

INGREDIENTS:
beef strips
half medium onions, chopped
juice of 1 lime
garlic powder
salt and pepper for seasoning
oil for sautéing
buns
avocado slices
slices of cheese

Heat up oil. Sauté the onions until transparent. Add the beef strips and let them cook. Add the lime juice, garlic powder, salt and pepper. Stir everything together.

Scoop some of the beef mixture on top of a bun. Layer the avocado slices on top, then the slice of cheese. Lastly, the top bun.

TIP : Put the sandwich in the microwave for a few seconds to slightly melt the cheese.

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Beef Avocado Cheese Sandwich

Here’s a recipe for an Avocado Quiche from the Holland Inn, in Bar Harbor, Maine.

Avocado Quiche
Ingredients:
This is by far Evin’s favorite dish. Try replacing the fresh tomato with picante, well drained! Yummy! Makes 2 quiches Serves 6-8 slices per quiche.
1 cup sour cream
4 eggs, beaten
3 cups shredded cheddar cheese
dash of salt & black pepper to taste 8 scallions, chopped
2 ripe med. tomatoes, chopped then drained
2 ripe avocado, sliced about 1/4 inch thick
2 – 9 inch deep pie shells

Directions:

Preheat oven to 375°.

Combine sour cream, eggs, salt and pepper. Mix well. Add cheese, mix well. Stir in scallions and tomatoes.

Lay avocado slices on the bottom of pie shells. There should be just enough slices to cover the bottom. Pour cheese mixture over avocado slices and spread out evenly.

Bake 40-45 minutes, until set and golden and puffy. Let stand 10 minutes before serving.

Top with a spoonful of sour cream and fresh chopped avocado, scallion and tomatoes.

Image credit: All Posters.com
Recipe credit: Holland Inn and BnBfinder.com

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Avocado Quiche Recipe

Pico de Gallo

If you don’t want to handle chiles but still want to have the spicy flavor, just sprinkle a few red pepper flakes on it.

Check out my pico de gallo twists after the fold…

Tropical Mango Salsa on grilled salmon

One of the twists I do for pico de gallo is adding chopped ripe magoes and then calling it as “tropical mango salsa“.

Avocado Salsa

Another twist is adding chopped avocados instead of ripe mangoes. Any of these twists are great for grilled or pan-fried fish fillets like salmon, tuna, tilapia, etc.

Pico de Gallo On Eggs

I also like to share that I like pico de gallo as a topping for my over-medium eggs. Try it next time because you might actually like it.

(Images : FeistCook/Blisstree)

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Pico de Gallo Twists

If you’ve got your guacamole dips recipes all sussed out and you think you’ll have excess avocados, how about whipping up an Avocado Caesar Salad? Or some Avocado Pasta for something more filling than just chips? Or — and this sounds yummy– an Raspberry Avocado Smoothie as a refreshing drink for the morning after (but not for those with hangovers I guess).

Contrary to popular myth, avocados have been documented to actually help ward off cardiovascular disease, as well as Alzheimer’s Disease and cancer because of its high antioxidant content. It also contains lutein that help maintain clear vision by protecting against eye disease such as cataracts and macular degeneration.

See, there’s more to avocado than just a Superbowl ingredient. Go on and explore more avocado recipes!

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Superbowl Sunday, Avocado Sunday

D’Ambrosio, who collaborated with researchers in Ohio State’s College of Pharmacy, found that phytochemicals extracted from avocados target multiple signaling pathways and increase the amount of reactive oxygen within the cells, leading to cell death in pre-cancerous cell lines. But the phytochemicals did not harm normal cells.

“These studies suggest that individual and a combination of phytochemicals from the avocado fruit may offer an advantageous dietary strategy in cancer prevention,” says Ding, who is a member of the division of radiobiology, department of radiology.

I love avocados! I know there used to be concerns about its being high in fat, but more recent medical opinion is that most of the fat in an avocado is monounsaturated – the “good” kind that actually lowers cholesterol levels.

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Avocados May Help Prevent Oral Cancer

They are good sources of folate or folic acid. What’s the deal with folate? Low dietary intake of folate has been associated with increasing the levels of homocysteine, a risk factor linked with coronary heart disease and stroke, although a direct relationship between folate intake and heart disease has not yet been conclusively shown. High homocysteine levels have also been associated with an increased likelihood of developing Alzheimer’s disease.

Check out the healthy recipes at Fresh California Avocados for more ideas (including recipes for about 50 types of guacamoles). I can personally recommend the Avocado Shake!

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Avocados Against Heart Disease and Alzheimer’s Disease