Journal of a Sysadmin

Guacamole

Servings: 4
Prep Time: 0.5 hours
Ingredients

• 4 avocados
• 2 ripe tomatoes
• 1 small onion
• 3 to 6 cloves of garlic
• 45ml lime juice
• 45ml lemon juice
• salt to taste

Cooking Instructions
Pick ripe avocados, where the skin is dark and they are fairly soft. If they are too green and hard they won’t taste good or mash well. Peel the avocados and remove the pits then mash in a bowl with a potato masher. Finely chop the onion and tomatoes.

Add all ingredients but the garlic and salt to the mashed avacados and mix. Either finely chop or use a garlic press and add that to the bowl, adjusting for taste (some people like us want a lot of garlic). Salt to taste.

Serve with tortilla chips or use in 7 layer dip.

Notes
After reading several recipes for guacamole we decided to use bits of all of them to create our own. This is an excellent tasting dip. Always use fresh avacado and tomato. If you smell the tomato at the store you should be able to smell the plant. If you can’t they are either not fresh or mass produced highly manipulated tomatos and won’t be worth using.

wow, time flies

It’s been a month since I posted last, mostly I’ve been busy but I’ve also not gone for a decent ride since Sept. 11th (ouch, that sucks). Only real reason I’m here is I was checking versions (just upgraded the kids drupal installs) and thought I’d stop and write a note.

Life has been really busy and exciting lately. jhb recieved notice on Tuesday that her AIP (Approval In Principle) and Work permit are done (this is great because she has been wanting so badly to work) and because of this, just before lunch on Tuesday I get a frantic tear filled phone call from jhb where she is so excited she’s been running around the house screaming but, alas there was no one here to share it with her :(. I would have loved to have rushed home right that second but I couldn’t… Sometimes how it is.

Now, she is looking for work. Frantic again but towards a solid goal and I think that has made a difference for her…

Besides that, everyone one is fine. kids are ok in school, I’m good, jhb is good. Life continues down it’s meandringly crooked path towards its next bump while we careen half out of control and as fast as possible towards some far off destination. We’ll let all of you know when we get there.