Avo­cado Dip a la Lit­tle Cran­berry Island

Avo­cado Dip a la Lit­tle Cran­berry Island

1 avo­cado, nice and ripe (so you can make an inden­ta­tion in the flesh, but don’t go crazy doing this), peeled and the seed taken out)

Wait.

Let me inter­rupt myself and teach you how to pre­pare an avo­cado. I had to learn the hard way, where you man­gle many, many avo­ca­dos and are finally taken to task by some more knowl­edge­able din­ner guest watch­ing you be your idiot self. You hold it in one hand and using a nice par­ing knife, pierce the avo­cado with the tip till you feel the seed inside, then run your knife all the way around the avo­cado, mak­ing con­tact with the seed at all times. Then hold each half of the avo­cado in a hand and twist till it comes apart. Then VERY CARE­FULLY ease your knife tip into the seed (I once com­pletely stabbed myself in the palm doing this, so deeply that it didn’t even bleed, and it had to be patched up by my din­ner guest who hap­pened to be a doc­tor — a der­ma­tol­o­gist, but I couldn’t be choosy). Wig­gle the knife in the seed VERY CARE­FULLY till you dis­lodge the seed and then dis­card it. Now pull the skin off the whole avo­cado and either slice nicely for a salad or in this case…

Place avo­cado in food proces­sor or blender. Add:

three table­spoons sour cream
three table­spoons goat cheese
sev­eral shakes Tabasco
juice of a lime, juice of a lemon
salt to taste

Whizz till com­pletely smooth. This with lob­ster or crab is DIVINE. Unless, like my mother who is oth­er­wise per­fect, you feel that avo­cado is infe­rior to mod­el­ling clay as a food.

The evening of the Cur­rans’ arrival we had a gor­geous din­ner as well, if I do say so myself, and really a diet chicken salad din­ner. For when you’re in a no-carb mood. The chicken salad idea is mod­i­fied from a lovely lunch my friend Kath­leen served to me at her house in Mys­tic, Con­necti­cut. With it I served my pink gaz­pa­cho (recipe in an ear­lier post from May).

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