[Urbane Guerrilla]

Avocados are a staff of life -- and I was sure of that well before moving to Southern California, where you can hardly throw a rock without hitting an avocado picker.

If you're agile, that's a pretty fair way to get free avocados back.

Botanically, avocados are a fruit, but nutritionally they more resemble a nut, from their vegetable oil content.

Guacamole would find much favor with raw-food faddists. Granted, it would be less fun without its pepper, lime, and salt.

Something that de-slimes (I'd call them unctuous, not slimy) sliced avocados is to put them in chicken soup at the very end of cooking. Caldo Tlalpen~o is sort of Mexican Jewish Penicillin: a brothy chicken soup with lots of red pepper included with the other chicken-soup bits like onion, carrot slices and some potato, and it may be had with half an avocado sliced up into it. For my money, that's the way to have Tlalpeno. It's enriched. And with all those peppers, both dried red and sliced fresh green ones, it'll cure what ails ya.

There's a local restaurant that offers them in eggs Benedict. I should give it a try that way.

DucksNuts, could you post the recipe over in the recipe thread? That sounds fun.