It’s good enough for me!
Two summers ago I went to a book signing/food tasting with Rick Bayless. His new book Fiesta at Rick’s had just been released. I love me some Rick Bayless. I tried to get a reservation at Topolobampo in Chicago for my 30th birthday. Six weeks out I tried and it was already booked. Bayless had just won Top Chef All Star, and Topolobampo was noted as one of the Obama’s favorite restaurants when they lived in Chicago, so it was a hot ticket, even so, I thought six weeks out I may have a chance!
Back to the tasting two summers ago – Rick made a guacamole inspired by a BLT. Which was pretty much his standard guacamole with some crumbled bacon. I had one piece left from the cheese stuffed date adventure, so I crisped that up and added it to my guacamole.
Sadly, it was not delicious. This is not Rick’s fault. It’s the fault of over ripe avocados. They were probably about 2 days past their prime. I also added lemon juice instead of lime juice. Rick told me that could be an option in guacamole. I favor lime juice. I am having fun experimenting with guacamole. The corn-crab guacamole of a couple of weeks ago and the bacon addition this time. I also had some mango-pineapple salsa that I put on the fish tacos I made, and smooshed some of that into the guacamole also for a few bites. Excellent! For sure the next time I’ll try that with a bigger batch. Yum!
Also, fish tacos are fantastic! I maintain that I don’t cook fish well, but this was okay. I just squirted some lime juice and jerk seasoning on the cod before throwing it on my grill pan. Then I put something from every color of the rainbow on the tacos.
bacon guacamole! ::photo from seriouseats.com::
Colorful tacos!
Summer of 2010, mugging with my new cookbook about to be signed
A little private photo op with Rick Bayless. No big deal.
This was such an exciting moment for me that it made my 2010 Christmas card. Ahh, summer of 2010 – you were a good one.
