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AlanMexicali


May 9, 2013, 4:55 AM

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Guacamole recipes

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I have seen here "Guacamole salsa" recipes but checked back a few pages and did not see any guacamole recipes without chilies. It appears these recipes have such a varied popularity regionally as I suspect. I have made Baja style here in San Luis Potosi and had a bad or mild acceptance to it.

Also I have noticed many asaderos and torta stands and shops do not have guacamole available in many places and the ones that have avocado available simply put a very small thinly sliced portion on the torta. Taco stands usually do not have any avocadoes at all.

In Baja all asaderos and torta stands or shops have Baja style guacamole in bowls and you add as much to the taco or torta as you like and the more commercial torta shops put a large portion of simple mashed avocado on the torta if you ask, sometimes with that specially ordered torta and sometimes a few peso charge if that specialty torta does not have it listed on the board above the counter.


Very few there have guacamole salsa but here they have it here at many places and it is hot most times and very hot other times, depending on the place.


(This post was edited by AlanMexicali on May 9, 2013, 4:57 AM)



esperanza

May 9, 2013, 6:20 AM

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Re: [AlanMexicali] Guacamole recipes

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It's been many a year since I ate tacos at El Güero in Tijuana. Guacamole was always on the counter, free for the taking. That was in the days when the cost of avocado was much, much less than it is today. I suspect that the current high cost of this oro verde--in Mexico City, we often pay as much as 40 pesos the kilo--has contributed to the scarcity of huge bowlsful to pile high on a taco.

Alan, would you kindly describe for the forgetful what 'Baja style' guacamole is like? Thanks!




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AlanMexicali


May 9, 2013, 7:00 AM

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Re: [esperanza] Guacamole recipes

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It's been many a year since I ate tacos at El Güero in Tijuana. Guacamole was always on the counter, free for the taking. That was in the days when the cost of avocado was much, much less than it is today. I suspect that the current high cost of this oro verde--in Mexico City, we often pay as much as 40 pesos the kilo--has contributed to the scarcity of huge bowlsful to pile high on a taco.

Alan, would you kindly describe for the forgetful what 'Baja style' guacamole is like? Thanks!



That makes perfect sense. The price of the large flour tortilla tacos has risen in Baja from the decade old price of $10.00 pesos per taco now to $14.00 or even $15.00 there over a few years but here in San Luis Potosi they are still the small corn tortilla tacos for $5.00 or $6.00 pesos per taco but keep the free guacamole there on the tables or counters in Baja.

Take 2 large avocados and mash them completely with a fork. Add juice from 1/2 a sweet Baja key lime, water, salt and granulated garlic powder or blenderized fresh garlic. Keep the 2 seeds in the mix. It should be watered down enough to where it is the consistency of mayonnaise. Alan


robt65

May 22, 2013, 10:31 PM

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This may help you understand why the price of both avocado's and limes have gone through the roof on prices . . . . . . . which of course reflects on the price of your Baja Tacos.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...exico_n_3322373.html

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/...ain/article12043852/

Regards,
Robt65


(This post was edited by robt65 on May 22, 2013, 10:36 PM)
 
 
 
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