Tuesday, June 3, 2008

Avocado Pie. THREE recipes.

After reading "OMG MAKE THIS NOW" being posted mere days after reading "that sounds weird or disgusting", I was immediately intrigued.  I love a good exotic food idea.

So, I tried three different incarnations of it.  After all, I had ... oh ..... ten different avocados, and I want an avocado plant forest!  But more on that later.

Ingredients 1:
1 (9 inch) prepared graham cracker crust
2 avocados - peeled, pitted and pureed
1/2 cup lemon juice
1 (5 ounce) can sweetened condensed milk

Recipe 1:
1.  Get your crust ready.

2.  Put everything else into a blender.

3.  Dump everything into graham pie shell crust

4.  Freeze it.  For at least 3 hours.

Reaction: 90%.  The lemon in the recipe made it taste like a key lime pie.  Which is nice, but if I wanted that, I would have just made that instead.

Ingredients 2:
1 (9 inch) prepared graham cracker crust
2 avocados - peeled, pitted and pureed
1 (5 ounce) can sweetened condensed milk
15 extremely fresh cherries.  They should literally be this (link) color.  Rainier cherries would be even better.

Recipe 2:
1.  Get your crust ready.

2.  Put everything else into a blender.

3.  Dump everything into graham pie shell crust

4.  Freeze it.  For at least 3 hours.

Reaction: 75%.  The only think that made this worth my time was the large number of cherries I put into it.  Perhaps if I put in a lot more, it would be a lot better, but as I made it the taste of sweetened condensed milk was ridiculously overpowering.

Ingredients 3:
1 (9 inch) prepared NORMAL pie crust
2 avocados - peeled, pitted and pureed
3/2 cup milk
4/5 block package of cream cheese.  I used low fat.  Perhaps you should too......
1/4 teaspoon vanilla

Recipe 3:
1.  Get your crust ready.  I bake it for about 5 minutes.

2.  Put everything else into a blender.

3.  Dump everything into graham pie shell crust

4.  Freeze it.  For at least 12 hours.

Reaction: 99%.  I just discovered a culinarily pure dessert form of Avocado.  To bad it's a giant circular icicle, and unfit for pie form.  Avocado Popsicles, here we come!  In the future, however, I shall reduce the amount of milk to reduce ice crystallization in my precious pie.

Notes:  Get ready to gain weight.  Do NOT give yourself multiple portions.

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