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quote:Originally posted by boomyboomy

Thanks for that info!

So - I bought two 'Large Hass Avocados' today. They were dark green and slightly soft when I pressed them.


I peeled the skin off one of them and cut it into quarters. However, the outer edges were quite green. Am I meant to eat those parts?

I had half the avocado for lunch today, but felt quite hungry by 4pm. Is it possible to eat too many avocados? What is a good amounth to eat per day?

Thanks!

Hmm, I don't know what a good amount to eat is.  I usually eat one avacado though, when I eat one.  They're good on salad, or my favorite method is to use "wheat thin" crackers, or an equivalent, and scrape the avacado right out of the peel.

If the avacado is ripe, and ready to eat, when you quarter it, you should be able to scrape the avacado out with a cracker, and the cracker should not break.. =)  Once you've eaten ripe ones and not so ripe ones, you'll recognize what ones are good.

As an aside, my girlfriend had a friend who was from an area in Africa where they had lots of avacado trees, and she said that she used them as a "facial", so instead of eating them, she smashed them up and smeared them on her face for a while.  I would consider that a waste of good food, but the goals are different.  For me, the avacado is a good source of fat -- I'm a vegetarian.

I usually eat them once or twice a week, becuase they're pretty expensive around here, about $1.99 US each.

Another tasty thing to make with them is guacamole, it's really easy too:

Take 2-4 ripe avacados, peel and remove the pit, put them in a mixing bowl.  Juice 1 lemon, put the juice in the bowl, mince or crush some garlic, add to the bowl, chop up some chillies if you want, add a bit of tomato (sometimes i just throw in some salsa if I don't have any fresh tomato or chillies handy), and mash them to a pulp.

Many recipes use a little sugar and salt as well.  I just throw stuff in until it tastes good.  



gnosis

quote:Originally posted by boomyboomy
I read about almonds somewhere else on the internet. I bought a bag today. However, they are in their skins - am I supposed to eat the
As you can probably tell - I'm pretty inexperience with almonds...! []

Also, avocado keeps on cropping up. I think I'll buy some of those

I don't know about puffy eyes, but almonds and avacados are good to just eat!  Depending on what part of the world you are in, it may be difficult or expensive to get good ripe avacados.

In case you don't already know, the avacado should be black and slightly soft when you press on it, if it is too mushy, it's over-ripe, and if its green and very firm, it's under-ripe.  

You can place under-ripe avacados in a brown paper bag, and they will ripen.

I have a bag of Raw almonds next to my computer at work, and they make for a great snack.  I eat them with the skins on, they don't detract from the taste very much.

Also,

If you grind up almonds into a fine powder, and add it to very cold Vanilla-Rice Milk, blend it up and add cinnamon, it tastes very good!




gnosis

Bard,

Could you provide more details as to preportions of ingredients you are using, or were you just kind of throwing stuff in?

Is there a general way that one goes about cooking the herbs with beeswax for solidification?  I'm guessing double-boiler with beeswax, and stir in the oily liquid.

Also, did you use rasberries, or raspberry leaves, or stems?

Thanks for any information!  I'm moving to a new house soon (from a small apartment), and plan to have an herb garden and do a bit of wildcrafting around my area.

gnosis