All About Storing Avocados (plus other tips and recipes)

Well, it's been awhile...I hope you all enjoyed your holidays! I took a nice break and spent some time with family. We had a great time and ate some good food. Speaking of family, my sister and I like to argue about the best way to store avocados. She puts them in the fridge as soon as she brings them home (unripe). I am adamantly against that method and did some testing to prove her wrong. My favorite method is the first one listed below. Although I'd rather eat my avocados at room temp, sometimes this isn't possible so this method allows me to eat avocados everyday.

I love avocados. (Though I guess not as much as my niece who loves them so much she wants to "marry them!") Seven of my recipes use avocados and I'm sure there will be more. I would live in California just to have inexpensive avocados. Maybe even my own tree. Oh, how wonderful that would be. Now, I have to ration my avocados so I have enough. Those babies are expensive. When I catch a sale, dropping the price to $1 per avocado, I load up. Unfortunately this means that sometimes I just can't eat them fast enough. I mean I could, but that whole rationing thing still applies.

No Bake Mini AIP Pumpkin Pies with Coconut Whipped Cream (Paleo, Autoimmune Protocol, GAPS)

If you follow me on Facebook, you may have seen me post about a pumpkin recipe a few weeks months ago. I started working on this back in August or September (and neglected to take pictures until recently) and it took some time to get these as I imagined them. When I have an idea for creating desserts that are allergy-friendly and I have to try to make them. I'm a little obsessed. I'm also obsessed with mini desserts. See here and here. This recipe actually started as somewhat of a pumpkin fudge. I was making this almond butter fudge and decided to try it with pumpkin. It tasted similar to a pumpkin pie, but then I decided that I wanted to create something that really was like pumpkin pie. But without eggs and nuts, and of course without gluten and dairy. A perfect and fun substitute for traditional pumpkin pie on Thanksgiving!

Instant Pumpkin Pie Ice Cream (Banana Soft Serve)

My pumpkin consumption usually only involves pumpkin pie. Lots of pumpkin pie. (Last year, I made it using this crust from Mark's Daily Apple and it was delicious.) But...this "ice cream" might just change my mind. I'm putting pumpkin in everything from now on. (I'm kidding. But after eating this for several weeks, I'm tempted.)