February 29, 2012 - Fried Ricotta Avocados

It’s a LEAP DAY MIRACLE! Leap Day Williams truly made magic happen tonight and made this leap day great.  It only comes along every four years, but leap day is a special day when anything can happen and if something goes wrong it doesn’t count.  I got the opportunity to host my delightful cousin KT, we planned to watch The Voice and do mostly nothing but sit and hang out, chat, or not chat, etc etc.  The awesome thing about having KT around is that she’s a food science major, which means she knows a lot more about cooking than I do, and also means that her nerdy food science major friends talk with her about food all the time, which is basically a foodsperiment waiting to happen.

KT had mostly eaten when she came over, but I pulled out my leftover Turnip Surprise, some sunflower seeds, and an avocado, she was happy to at least try everything.   When I pulled out the avocado, KT did one of these things she does sometimes which is start to explain about a way one of her friends makes avocados even more amazing.  As avocados are one of the three A’s of Deliciousness, I’m always interested in a new way to enjoy it so….

Fried Ricotta Avocados – from KT’s food science major brain, and hands, and cooking skills

Ingredients:

• One Avocado – check
• Ricotta cheese – check

Step 1: Cut your avocado in half and take out the pit.  If you don’t know how to do this, we aren’t friends.  Also, look on youtube.

Step 2: Heat a small pan over medium heat.

Step 3: Put one half of the avocado, pit side down on the pan.  Allow to fry until browned (you can check it by picking it up, that skin is TOUGH.

Step 4: When your cousin, who’s doing the cooking, says “this is supposed to be even better with ricotta” say “I HAVE THAT”.  Dollop a  scoop of ricotta cheese into the pit hole, I don’t know if that’s the technical term but it is now, and place the avocado plus ricotta cut side down on the pan, fry until browned. 

Step 5: Repeat step 4 (dollop ricotta into pit hole and fry until browned) with the second side of the avocado.

Step 6: Consume.

Wowza.  No joke, I love my cousin.  Not only because she’s intelligent, and delightful, and knows food science kids…but those are among the reasons.  Anyway, this is a delightful snack!  KT and I agreed that it will be better when the avocados are a little riper, but this was awesome.  


This foodsperiment gets a +8 for taste, +5 for health, +5 for easy cleanup, +5 for cousintime, and +5 for a true Leap Day Miracle!  Happy Sperimenting!

Fried Ricotta Avocado