Pickled Avocados



Do you ever find yourself with too many ripe avocados on your hands? Or perhaps you see them for sale at the store or a road side stand and wish you could take advantage of that opportunity? 



If you do -- here's something to try -- you might find yourself a way to enjoy some avocados in mid-winter by preserving them with an old fashioned method - pickling!  Let us know if you try it and how

New World Chicken









I adapted this recipe from a “Mediterranean Diet” recipe so
that it uses California avocado 3 ways in order to take advantage of the healthy
properties in avocados – the “New World’s” answer for olives. I also use
California olives, California wine and California lemon too.



In this one pot meal, we will use avocado oil, avocado leaves and finish with chopped avocado (instead of sour

Are Avocados GMO?!



A normal (yet large) winter avocado next to a normal sized Hass

I often get asked if there are any genetically modified organism (GMO) avocados.

In short, the answer is NO... not yet (as of June 2012).

Here's the longer answer....

A. GMO means: "A genetically modified organism (GMO) or genetically engineered organism (GEO) is an organism whose genetic material has been altered using genetic