#A Pre-Paleo Post.
7pm, bumping Saturday night.
I finished binge watching The OA, settled my empty stomach with a bowl of chicken noodle soup, and snuggled up in my studio apartment as the second snow fall of Long Island winter appeared outside my windows. I was avoiding the near death experience that had plagued all of my closest friends in a 15 mile radius – the stomach bug. I was achey, feverish, and sore. But I was fine.
About 20 hours later (13 spent sleeping), I was at my mom’s house with a reviving immune system, and I was STARVING. To avoid yet another shock to my body, I went for the soothing properties of the oh-so loved, oh-so trendy avocado.
I was cat-sitting for my mom who was away in Indonesia. It was day 5 of 10 that she’d be away with her boyfriend paradising in Bali and then grunging it in a local more rural town (HIS son is in the Peace Corps, saving the world while I lay on the couch wondering what I did to mess up the flow of water that came out of the kitchen sink). The little food that they did leave in the fridge would have to be eaten or thrown out before they were back. There was one avocado already cut in half and starting to wrinkle on the outside. Two were in a bowl by the stove, soft and (actually) perfect* for eating.
**I never know, really. And yes, there’s that trick, if you pop off the end button, to see if they’re ripe: Green means no, brown is go. But I didn’t do it. It was now or never, I thought. Turns out when an avocado is soft and you think it’s just about gross inside, it’s actually freakin’ perfect. So I ate avocados. All. Day. Long.
I made avocado toast:
The toaster was broken (what? why?) so I used Ayurvedic ghee – also known as clarified butter – in a cast iron pan to toast whatever bread was in the fridge. Ghee helps move things along, if you know what I mean. It’s used in Ayurvedic cleanses and everyday living as a substitute to processed butter. It’s more natural, because its milk solids have been removed, and its cleansing/detoxifying properties are beneficial to your health.
Even Rachel Ray says so.
The already cut avocado was a little brown but still perfect consistency. Someone was smart and left the pit in to keep the fruit fresh. Spread over the toast with the appropriate bread-to-spread proportions, then sprinkled with crushed red pepper.
For a first meal after feeling like was going down hard, gotta say, I nailed it.
Find more information about the amazing avocado, here.
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