Avocado Tools

Pama Margarita

Pama Margarita 

2.5oz Pama Pomegranate
1oz Cabo Wabo tequila
.5oz triple sec
Dash each lime juice & simple syrup

Shake & pour over ice. Great mix of flavors. Not too tart. Would try blended. 4:5 Sworded Olives. #SwordedOlives

And what goes with margaritas? Guacamole! Hence, our avocado theme. 

My favorite guacamole recipe is two avocados mixed with one packet of Simply Organic guacamole mix. Then refrigerate for 30 minutes. 

Avocado Corer/Slicer

After cutting your avocado in half the first thing you have to do is remove the pit. The left side of this tool scoops out your pit. A necessary gadget? No. Fun? Sure. The left side of the tool is the avocado slicer. The avocado has to be at the just right consistency for this to work effectively. It can't be too hard or too firm, but makes good slices for salad. 

Avocado Scooper

For guacamole I needed the entire avocado so I used this avocado scooper. The very end is tilted up just enough to slide in-between the skin and flesh to separate the two and pop out the flesh with very little lost, stuck to the skin. This also may seem like an unneeded gadget, but I have to say it works well and eliminates any struggle to get all of the avocado. 

Avocado Storage

Though I used two entire avocados for my guacamole I wanted to include all my avocado tools in one post. This is for avocado storage, when you only use one half. The top, dark green strap secures your half avocado in like a seat belt! You can see the dent just underneath the strap, this is for your pit. Keep the pit with the avocado half and it will not spoil as quickly.
- C

Olive Slicer and Tomato Corer

Pama Martini

Pama Martini 

1.5oz each of Pama Pomegranate & Skyy vodka
.25oz triple sec
Shake with ice and strain into a martini glass with lemon zest (as obvious above, I need to improve my zesting skills!).
This drink is a bit too sweet. Try adding .5oz cranberry juice to make the pomegranate flavor pop!

Now, on to our tools...

 Egg Slicer

So today I was making a taco salad that called for chopped black olives. I didn't feel like using the knife and decided to try my hard boiled egg slicer. I was able to fit three olives at a time. This device opens so you can place the egg (or olives) into the 'nest' and then you close the wire top over it. It worked well for making chunky black olives for a salad, but the pieces were not even or tiny if that is what you are looking for. Also, once the wire top would raise I would sometimes have to push the bottom olives all the way through so they would be completely cut. Overall it saved me time and I rarely pass up an opportunity to use a gadget. *I've also used this tool for mushrooms.

And one more for today...

Tomato Corer

My salad also called for grape tomatoes, but I don't like grape tomatoes. I think it's all the skin I don't care for. Instead I decided to chop a whole tomato. Before chopping I used the bottom part of the above tool to remove the core of the tomato on top and the nub on the bottom as well. Could a knife do this? Sure, but using the gadget is always more fun! *The top part of this tool is a melon baller which works well also.

Both of these tools are from Pampered Chef.
- C