Avocados and Alton Brown

One of the reasons I am especially happy to have satellite tv is I can watch Food network. I am a fan of Alton Brown and his "Good Eats" show. Last night he demonstrated some ways to use Avocado that I'm sure I'll never try, but it was a fun show to watch and was about one of my favorite foods. (Yes, the avocado).

I prefer the Hass avocado which has an interesting history. All of the Hass avocados we eat today started from the same "Mother Tree", which unfortunately died in 2002 at the age of 76 to root rot.

To me a good avocado can be eaten with some salt and perhaps a bit of salsa, or on a burger, a seafood salad, even in sushi, the ways to use an avocado are endless.

I am also a fan of guacamole, I am always on the look out for the best guacamole I can find. So far the best guacamole dip I have ever discovered is made in a small Mexican restaurant in New London, Connecticut. Even though Miguel is almost related to the owner? I had no success in getting the receipe. I've tried to duplicate it, almost have it but not quite. Anytime we went there or anyone from there came here? Bringing a large container of that dip was a requirement. The tacos there are awesome too, but they don't travel as well as the dip....

Locally? The best guacamole salad I have had is at El Tipico. In the many years they have been open it is always consistently the best. Especially in the summer months when they use home grown tomatoes rather than hothouse ones. While I try the guacamole at every Mexican place I go to? So far no one locally has come close.