Avocado Banana Smoothie

 

 

 

 

 

 

Avocado Banana Smoothie

Strawberry Avocado for Love Your Heart

Strawberry Avocado Smoothie with Dates and Hemp Seeds for Love Your Heart & GIVEAWAYS!

Today marks the first in a series of recipes featuring heart-healthy ingredients that I will be bringing to you along with Nicole of Prevention RD, Lauren of Healthy Food for Living, and Amy and Natalie of Super Healthy Kids.

Sweet Avocado Ice Pops Recipe

Avocado ice cream is fairly common in Mexico, so I decided to make avocado one of the flavors of paletas when I launched my company La Newyorkina ("the girl from New York") at the Hester Street Fair in New York City's Lower East Side. I was unsure of how people would receive them, but avocado paletas (paletas de aguacate, aguacate being the very cool Spanish word for avocado) rapidly became a customer and personal favorite!

Lemon Tuna Avocado Snack

Halved avocados make a quick and nutritious snack or light meal. Their mild flavor is complemented here by tuna and lemon juice.

Avocado Vanilla Cheesecake

 
Recipe by: Sweetly Raw

Avocado Ice Cream

Avocado Ice Cream

Cinco de Mayo is on Thursday and if you are looking for a delicious dessert to serve, try Avocado Ice Cream. Yes, you heard me right, Avocado Ice Cream. You might think avocados don’t belong in ice cream, but let me reassure you, this ice cream is fantastic.

Easy Hazelnut Chocolate Avocado Mousse

While scarfing down lightly munching on a bag of dark chocolate chunks (the type clearly meant for baking) last night, I decided the chunks just weren’t cuttin’ it. My chocolate craving was a little more sophisticated than I had previously thought. Grow up, Katie!

Grilled Chicken Salad With Avocado and Mango

Spicy Avocado Pizza

Sometimes when you’re running low on ingredients, you’re forced to improvise. To make unusual decisions resulting in things you might not ordinarily try if you had say… some tomato sauce or mozzarella cheese around. The results of this culinary ad-libbing has a name… and that name is spicy avocado pizza. 

Salmon and avocado rice balls

 

Apple Avocado Soup

Avocado Sandwich

Simple Greek Avocado Sandwich

Ingredients

• 2 slices whole wheat bread (soft)
• 1/2 avocado
• 1 tbsp pesto (basil)
• red bell pepper (roasted, jarred is fine)
• cucumber (sliced into thin rounds)
• purple onion (thinly sliced)
• 6 pitted kalamata olives (thinly sliced)
• 1 handful spring mix
• balsamic reduction
• balsamic vinegar

Avocado salad

Ingredients

• 4 Cos lettuce leaves, chopped
• 6 cherry tomatoes, halved
• 2 radishes, finely sliced
• 2 spring onions, finely sliced
• 50g cucumber, cut into small cubes
• 25g flat-leaf parsley leaves, chopped
• 25g mint leaves, coarsely chopped
• 1 avocado, chopped into chunky pieces
• ½ tbsp sumac (a crushed red, lemony berry; find it in Middle Eastern and Indian markets and online)

California Omelette

California Omelette

There were two dishes I ate during my trip to Boston last March that I was determined to try for myself once I returned home.  One was fish tacos, which I seemed to get a version of at every restaurant I went to because they were all so good, and the other was a California omelette that I treated myself to for breakfast at Sauciety in our hotel on the last morning.

When I looked up California omelette recipes later, it seemed that there are about a million different versions of them, but the one ingredient that appears to be common to them all is avocado.  The version I'd tried also included pesto, tomatoes, and mozzarella, and since I loved the combination of those four ingredients so much, I decided to just stick with them and create my own version off memory.

Banana Avocado Pancakes

Sweet Banana Avocado Pancakes (grain free, nut free, dairy free, et al)

When we eliminated grains from the family diet, I learned one lesson rather quickly: you can take just about any puree-able fruit or vegetable, add a bunch of eggs, and come up with a serviceable pancake. Add some vanilla, spices, and baking soda, and you have a downright decent pancake. (Side Note: little pancakes make a great replacement for sandwich bread for the kids.)