Avocado

It is funny how a chain of events happens sometimes. We are starting an avocado plant from seed because a new produce market opened close to my home.

I wanted to check out the new market. I browsed around and was very pleased with the quality and prices I saw. Plus, being new it is so clean! Let's say it was different from the market where I shopped previously and leave it at that.There were baskets of beautiful big tomatoes next to baskets of fresh inviting avocados. My mind went right to chopping and mixing them with some onion and lemon juice and mayo.

Under this spell I created upon myself I was powerless to resist. So some tomatoes and an avocado came home with me.

Silly me. Must have been that self-created food craving spell. To think that one avocado would do. When my little salad-snack was about half gone I realized my error in judgement. Maybe today I can stop back into the market and pick up a dozen avocados and more tomatoes. I'm really glad the new store is close to home!

When I was little I remembered Mom set an avocado seed in water with toothpicks and we watched it root and grow a shoot. I don't know whatever happened to the plant. I thought I'd give it a try with the handsome seed I'd garnished from the fruit I'd just enjoyed.

The first photo looks like we are back in chemistry building a model of a molecule. Those chemistry flashbacks are bothersome to me, so I quickly got the glass of water out and my relieved mind concentrated on botany again. The Artist has charted the progress of seeds for science classes before, but for the Engineer this is the first time. So far he has not taken much interest. I hope when the taproot starts to show he notices it before it is pointed out to him. Is your mouth watering? The first cookbook I reach for is the book I saw mom reach for first when I was growing up, the Good Housekeeping Cookbook, 1963. Among the offerings on p. 451 is Guacamole Salad: In chopping bowl, chop 1 small onion, 1 small dried red pepper (optional), 1 tomato, fine. Add 6 peeled avocados, 2½ teasp. salt, 2 teasp. lemon juice, 2 tablesp. mayonnaise, 1 teasp. salad oil, 4 drops Tabasco. Chop fine (don't mash). Serve in bowl or on greens. Makes 8 servings.