Nothing quite as satisfying as a good avocado-tomato salad. It’s a 100% ingredients, 0% cooking skill salad. All those people who claim they can’t cook I suspect just haven’t learned to shop for good ingredients. Cooking is the easy part and in many cases not I-even required.
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I didn’t eat avocado till I was like 25, and then in the form of meh guacamole that turned me off. Didn’t realize how good fresh was till 2011. Didn’t learn how to run a perfect-ripeness home supply chain till 4-5 years ago. Didn’t secure good, cheap, steady supply till 2y ago.
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Similar journey with good tomatoes
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I had mediocre Indian tomatoes growing up (mostly Roma) then really bad American grocery store ones (beefsteak are horrible). Then mediocre again with on-the-vine, but then discovered heirloom and good farmers market ones about a decade ago and 🤯
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Same with lettuce. Fresh from farmers market washed and prepped yourself >>> bagged from grocery store. Basically anything you might eat raw, but farmers market if you can. Cooks bled too if you can though the difference is smaller there.
