[Sca-cooks] Re: [OOP??]avacado question

[Alexa]

Hi Guillaume, 

Thank you for the ripening tip.  Often when I am
requested by my husband for avacado, the local stores
do not have any decent ripe ones.  This time, when
they were on sale, most were ripe.  I ended up buying
16 of them.   6 of them were made into guac and the
other 10 I had planned on doing what was
suggested-chop and toss liberally with lemon juice
then freeze.  Well, they were so ripe, there was no
way I could chop, so, I used another comment someone
mentioned.  And that was that guac does freeze.  I
ended up mashing them, with the lime juice I usually
use and then freezing it.  Right now, I have 2 ziplock
bags of frozen avacado.  It kept it's green color, so
that's a plus.  I won't know until it gets thawed out
if it survived the freezing and thawing.  

Thanks again for the ripening tip.

Alexa


--- Sam Wallace <guillaumedep at worldnet.att.net> wrote:

> Hi Alexa,
> 
> When we moved out to New Mexico, we were advised by
> our local grocer to put
> unripe avocados in a paper bag with some wheat flour
> overnight in order to
> ripen them up. Once they are ripe, they are harder
> to keep unless you freeze
> them. I have never tried to preserve them for any
> long period of time as
> they always get eaten up before that becomes a
> problem. You might try
> getting some fairly hard specimens and using this
> method as you need.
> 
> Yours,
> 
> Guillaume des Pyrenees
> 


		
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