Avocado on a bagel with lemon and salt
November 17th, 2011 § 7 Comments
In case you were wondering where I have been the past while, please, allow me to indulge you. I have been pouring over Italian cuisine: a cultural history and sifting through The importance of a taste: A comparative study on wild food plant consumption in twenty-one local communities in Italy and reading all about wild thistle and King’s spear and other such foraged plants of the Sicilian landscape. My final term paper on Sicilian cuisine has gotten the best of me and I am losing my mind.
But, sound mind or not, a girl has got to eat. And when you are devoting the larger part of your brain capacity to what the ninth century Arabic invasion of Sicily meant for the island’s culinary identity, your meals have got to be simple. That’s why I made this avocado and lemon bagel for lunch the other day – it was simple. I knew that it would be simple and I figured that it would be tasty as well but what I was not prepared for was just how earth-shatteringly tasty it would be. I don’t mean to be dramatic but if you can even so much as tolerate avocados, please, go make this. Now.
Ingredients
1 whole grain bagel, toasted
1/2 an avocado, sliced
1/2 a lemon, juiced
1 pinch of sea salt
Directions
1. Toast up your bagel. The toastier the better for this.
2. If your avocado is nice and ripe, go ahead and spread it onto your bagel. If your avocado is not quite ripe yet, no worries. Just lay it on in slices.
3. Sprinkle a bit of lemon juice onto your avocado bagel and then a bit of salt.
I have been eating so much orange and brown food lately (pumpkin, squash, pasta) that I decided to have a salad with my avocado bagel. It was a plain and kind of boring salad, I admit, of romaine lettuce and cucumbers but it was, again, simple. And I am all about simple right now.
Ahh
looks so yummayyy
I love avocado and had never thought of eating it this way. It would be the essence of taste with just lemon and salt… yummy! Good luck on your schoolwork, very difficult and impressive sounding!
The essence of the avocado – that’s exactly what it is! Well said. And yes, school is taking its toll on me but I’m seeing the light at the end of the tunnel! Almost there
Thanks for reading!
Nice photo! At least the subject is mouthwatering, even if it is still work!
Thank you! I’ve taken a liking to simple, aerial food photos. And that’s absolutely true! I have to say, I am quite pleaed with how my paper turned out so perhaps I will have to post it.
Hi Erica, Melissa here from Food Bloggers of Canada. Just popping by to check out your blog and to let you know we’ve added you to our Membership Directory – welcome aboard! You have a lovely simplicity about your blog
That’s great! Thank you! I can’t wait to get involved with the Food Bloggers of Canada.