Hit and Miss

Well, I never claim to be an expert chef, or food photographer, so here's all of last weeks "missing food posts" good and bad, lol! I had alot of time to play in the kitchen and one day last week, I think it was Wednesday, everything I did turned to crap....or I thought! Turns out one of my failures turned into a huge success, but first a failure....

I decided to make my own tortilla chips because for 2 weeks in a row I got avocados in my CSA box and I wanted to make a taco salad with avocado dressing. Well the avocado dressing came out freakin' awesome (it can also be used as a dip for veggies or chips, or to spread on triscuts...I kind of went crazy with that one, lol), but the "baked chips" sucked!

I want to blame it on the crappy quality of Trader Joes corn tortillas, but it was probably the cooking method. I brushed a small amount of oil on the tortilla and then cut them into small wedges, threw them on a baking sheet, into the oven @350 degrees for about 15-20 min. Some of them were nice and crispy, but most of them were rock hard.

It was my intention to make a 'taco like' salad of romaine lettuce, tomatoes (I bought my first 3 tomatoes fo the season, I wasn't really ready because it's been cold and I knew they were still "green house" tomatoes....nobody's perfect...I had to get over it), and avocado dressing, I had chicken and shredded pork but the calories were already high, so I skipped the meat. Unfortunately I didn't taste the tortilla chips before crumbling them on top of my salad! What a waste of calories! The hard chips ruined much of the experience and I couldn't get them out because I had crushed them, lol!

Avocado dressing

1 med avocado

1 small container plain yogurt (6-8oz)

lime juice (about 2 tbl.)

crushed garlic

diced jalapeno (you have to know by now I put jalapeno in everything, lol)

diced tomato (as much as you like)

cilantro, optional (I didn't have any)

S & P