kthread cooks: avocado salad
Were I to be scrupulously honest, I suppose I might admit this is less a salad and more a deconstructed guacamole.
But as I’m not so inclined, this recipe is a light dressing, a sharp uppermost layer for soft, green flesh encrusted with red salt that sparkles like garnets on top of the fruit Jenne and I found at Bee Heaven Farm this weekend.
Suitable for a quiet dinner for one in Paris, London, Miami:
Recipe: Very thinly slice one medium-sized shallot ~1.5 tbsp, put in bowl and cover with 1.5 tbsp oil, 1 tsp vinegar (of your choice, I used olive oil and Cabernet Franc vinegar), leave for five minutes. Halve avocado, remove the seed, ladle shallot mix into the hollow, squeeze lemon over the top and sprinkle with salt.
reading recommendation: The Dud Avocado, Elaine Dundy (excerpt)
listening recommendation: Madeleine Peyroux, “Dance Me to the End of Love”
avocado salad wallpaper on Flickr
drink pairing: Vinho Verde
salt recommendation: Hawaiian red
What is your ideal avocado salad?
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August 28th, 2008 at 9:08 am
Sure, the salad looked great and undoubtedly tasted fabulicious.
But let’s focus on the tropical-style outfit. Very appropriate for the coming times in the heat…
August 28th, 2008 at 12:16 pm
Fabulicious, A? Indeed.
It’s already rather hot here in Miami, but I’m told August heat continues into September, so I imagine the tropical garb will see continued use into the fall and perhaps winter/summer seasons…
August 28th, 2008 at 9:16 pm
I am so looking forward to trying this out with the ones I bought this weekend. What a fun recipe!
Question- where would I get some of the beautiful salts that you sprinkle over all the tasty dishes you cook for us?
August 28th, 2008 at 10:20 pm
So glad, Jenne, they should be ripe by now or by tomorrow. The Whole Foods in Coral Gables has a salt bar, actually, with some I haven’t tried (truffle salt!) and they can be ordered online too, let me know which ones you want—