2011 was the unofficial year of the avocado here at The Kitchn. With help from our readers, we learned the best ways to store and cut these creamy green fruits and dined on avocados for breakfast, lunch, and even dessert. Read on for the year's worth of tips, tricks, and recipes. (No avocados in your area? We reviewed a mail order source, too.)
• 1 Best Place to Store Avocados? In the Refrigerator
• 2 What Is the Best Way to Store Half an Avocado?
• 3 A Surplus Of Avocados: Should We Freeze Them?
• 4 What's the Best Way to Remove the Pit From an Avocado?
• 5 A Better Way to Dice an Avocado
• 6 Avocados by Mail! California Avocados Direct Delivers
• 7 Pasta & Fries: 5 Alarmingly Easy Ways To Eat Avocado
• 8 Yes, Adding Avocado to Scrambled Eggs Is a Very Good Idea
Avocado Recipes
• 9 Recipe: Avocado Toast from Andrew of Making Sunday Sauce
• 10 Recipe: Avocado Breakfast Pudding from Lizzie of Tomboy Style
• 11 Recipe: Avocado and Grapefruit Salad
• 12 Recipe: Kale Salad with Apricots, Avocado & Parmesan
Avocado for Dessert
• 13 Avocados for Dessert: 5 Sweet Green Treats
• 14 Sweet, Easy & Raw Recipe: Avocado Cacao Mousse
• 15 3-Ingredient Avocado Ice Cream? Well, Sort Of
Welcome to The Kitchn's Best of 2011 roundup! From December 19 through January 1 we are rounding up some of our favorite (and your favorite) posts from the past year.
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I'm in Southern California so avocado is not a rarity. That said, I refuse to pay a dollar or more for one.
I also have an observation to share- most fruits and vegetables are grown on farms, right? Out here avocado groves seem to be in wealthy, coastal area and they call them avocado "ranches", not farms. Beware of any kind of fruit or vegetable grown on "ranch" because if it comes from a "ranch" it costs more. The mail order avocado sellers crack me up! For what they charge I could pay retail at the supermarket, send the avocados and make a killing!
Seriously? The tip to store the avocado in a light-proof, air-tight container with some cut onion was brilliant! I no longer worry about buying an avocado and it not keeping. Absolutely fantastic. It keeps for days and days!