Holy Guacamole!

I never really ever realized how easy it is to make guacamole. It's literally three ingredients in a bowl. Avocados, lime juice, salt. Done. Now that I know this, and that I've mastered how to slice and pit an avocado (maybe "mastered" is a stretch), this might be something I have to do more often. I mean, who doesn't love chips and guac as an appetizer or snack? I suppose the real question is, what's more expensive, making your own guacamole or buying the stuff at the store? We'll have to look into this. Anyhow...

Last night the boys and I made chicken, bean & cheese quesadillas to go with our guac, and a Waldorf salad. As a I said above, the guac is really easy to throw together. Two avocados, the juice from half a lime, and a 1/2 teaspoon of salt. Mix it all up, and bam. Guacamole.

Once we had that done, we moved on to the Waldorf salad. So I looked it up and I guess technically what we made isn't quite a Waldorf salad. According to wikipedia, a Waldorf salad is:

"a fruit and nut salad generally made of fresh apples, celery, grapes and walnuts, dressed in mayonnaise, and served on a bed of lettuce."

Now we checked the apple box, the walnut box and the lettuce box, but our salad didn't have celery, grapes, or mayo (we used a store-bought balsamic vinaigrette) and we sprinkled some feta cheese on there as well (the cookbook recommended bleu cheese). Honestly I don't know that I'd like the traditional Waldorf, and I know that my non-mayonnaise-loving wife would prefer the vinaigrette dressing. Waldorf or not, I thought the salad turned out pretty good.

So when we cut up the apples for our salad, I tried our apple corer/slicer. The results were somewhat mixed. I feel like it shouldn't take my full bodyweight to force a slicer through an apple, but there we were. I was able to get through it eventually, but I don't know that it really saved me any time. Fun to try new things though.

So with our guac and our Waldorf salad done, we moved onto the quesadillas. The recipe was just for a bean & cheese quesadilla (which we'd actually made before), but this time we decided to add in some chicken. So we bought a rotisserie chicken from Safeway and I shredded some chicken breast to throw on there. Two key things we learned in our quesadilla making this week:

1) Make sure the tortillas you use aren't too big as it makes them really difficult to flip

2) The more things you put in a quesadilla, the heavier it becomes, and the harder it is to flip

So the flipping wasn't especially pretty, but we got them made, and they tasted decent with the guac. If we do the recipe again, I think the main thing we'd do different is using smaller shells. Overall though, not a bad dinner.