Little Victories

Today I learned how to properly hard boil eggs, without leaving an unsightly green film on the yolk.  You should have seen how beautiful and golden those yolks were! 

(Yes, I'm 27 and just now learning how to boil eggs.  Last year I learned how to bake a potato.  Baby steps, people!)

It wouldn't have mattered either way, because my plan for these eggs was to make egg salad with whipped avocado instead of mayo!  Never the less I took great comfort in knowing how perfectly white-and-golden those babies were underneath the avocado.

I had this idea probably months and months ago, but today I finally did it!  I was thinking, one day, about the creamy smooth texture of avocado and it occurred to me that it might be a delicious replacement for mayo in egg salad.  BUT, having never actually tasted real (traditional) egg salad, I wasn't sure it would be good.  And the fact that I'd never heard of it being done before wasn't exactly a confidence booster.

But I ran the idea by the culinary whiz that is my Husband, he grew thoughtful for some moments, and decided that it would be quite good.

And so, tonight for dinner, we had avocado egg salad on adorable little buns for dinner!  And it was awesomesauce!  I kinda wonder now if I might like real egg salad.  But I am really not a mayo fan (thank christ.  Can you imagine how big I'd be if I DID?  Now if I could just stop liking chocolate, cookies, carbs, and sodium, I'd be on my way to a healthy lifestyle!) and I'm glad we did this healthy fat substitute.  Loaded with vitamin E!

Invite us to a get together and you may just get a wonderfully yummy spring-green egg salad!  Oh.  Maybe that's why folks don't do it...  Ah well.  I would eat them in a box, I would eat them with a fox!


Avocado Egg Salad

Hardboil some eggs (put them in a bowl of ice water when you remove them from heat and this will give you the perfectly golden and not icky green yolks!  Again, not so relevent for this particular dish, but a good tip for the future. Do this with asparagus too, incidentally, for bright and deliciously brilliant green asparagus!)

Mash up or whip avocado, add salt (and pepper) and paprika to taste, and add some butter (we use butter substitute smart balance) whip all together.

Add avocado mixture to chopped up eggs, mix all together until you have desired egg salady consistency.

Serev on some kind of bread product!

Enjoy :)