Nachos for Breakfast

“The price of avos must fall” was a bit of a mock movement here in South Africa when we were dealing with Fees must Fall- avocados are really delicious but super expensive.
So you can imagine my excitement when someone decided to bless us with an entire bag of ripe avocados! I literally squealed from excitement! These avos were huge and ripe! I almost immediately cut one open and spiced it – armed with a spoon to devour this delicious treat!
I have heard tales that there exists an avocado that doesn’t taste as good as the rest. I didn’t want to believe it, I have never experienced such a thing – until this fretful night. I wished it wasn’t true but it was. The avos tasted so watered down and they were too soft- like absolute mush! My heart sunk to my feet, my excitement about this blessing bestowed upon us vanished.
It was contemplated to give away the remaining avos, I was considering trying a smaller one just to see if maybe the problem was that the avo was too large. Thankfully the same person who gave us the bag of avos had given us a salad the following evening (the person makes cooked meals for a price, my sister enjoys these cooked meals and hence we received a salad). This salad had avo pieces in, the same kind of avos, and the taste was still there but it was different somehow. I enjoyed the salad.
So I got to thinking- if you don’t eat the avo on its own with only spices, it tastes good. Finally I decided on guacamole! I love finding recipes for which I have everything in the home, not needing to buy anything extra since it’s not always on the budget.
I found a recipe on allrecipes.com.
The ingredients were as follows:
3 avos peeled and pitted
1 lime juiced
1 teaspoon salt
½ cup diced onion
3 tablespoons fresh cilantro
2 roma (plum) tomatoes
1 teaspoon minced garlic
1 pinch ground cayenne pepper (optional)
I didn’t have a lime or lime juice, I however had lemon juice. Also I did not have cilantro or tomatoes. Here’s what I did, if you check out my Instagram @imjoxo you will see a recipe for Thai Green curry. as I’m not a huge fan of spicy food- I didn’t use the entire sachet of Thai Green curry paste in the the curry, so I added that into the guacamole. Also the avos were a bit too ripe and I had to throw a few out- I had two large avos left to use. I chopped the avos up and chucked them in a bowl, I diced an entire onion (it was a small one though). Added lemon juice, salt and black pepper, minced garlic and the Thai Green Curry Paste. Mixed it all together and man did it smell good.
You can’t have guacamole on its own though so the idea of nachos popped into my head! For this, however, I did have to purchase a bag of cheese Doritos- the only thing I had to purchase for the entire meal! I placed the Doritos on a plate and added some Edam cheese (my new favourite cheese) over the Doritos and melted that in the microwave for 30 seconds. I then proceeded to place the guacamole on top of the melted cheese. Most people use cream cheese for nachos but I only had cottage cheese so I googled the difference and came to conclusion that cottage cheese will do the trick.
I added some spice to the cottage cheese and placed it on top of the guacamole! It was delicious!!! Extremely spicy though but a good kind of spicy as the cottage cheese helped to “cool” the mouth down. When I got to the bottom of the plate I had to resort to using a knife and fork instead of using the chips as spoons since the chips were a bit mushy from the melted cheese – still amazing though!
That’s how you make nachos for breakfast out of bad tasting avos!
Love Jo xo
Jo’s Take Aways
1. See if you can find a way to turn something you don’t like into something you like
2. Find recipes that you have all the ingredients for at home
3. Make sure you can handle the spice