Bienvenidos a Mexican Dining Week on OnMilwaukee.com. This week, in honor of Cinco de Mayo, we're spicing things up with daily articles about Mexican restaurants, foods, drinks, sweets and more. Enjoy a week of sizzling stories that will leave you craving Milwaukee's Latin offerings. Olé!
I find this hard to believe, myself, but I didn't try guacamole – or an avocado, even – until I was about 25. It was love at first sight.
Like I'm making up for lost time, I eat avocados whenever I can, and I love guac. Fortunately for me, it's Mexican Dining Week here at OnMilwaukee.com, and I'm finding myself eating a lot of it right now. Honestly, though, I like my own recipe more than what I'm trying in restaurants.
When parties call for me to bring a dish to pass, I'm always the guy who brings chips and guacamole.
And, even though I'm pretty late to the game, I tend to get compliments on my not very complicated recipe, that I adapted from my friend Pat's. The secret ingredient, I think, is a ton of lime.
Pedestrian as it may be, here's my not-so-famous guacamole recipe. Try it out and let me know how it compares to yours.
- Three avocados
- Two or three cloves of garlic
- The juice of one lime
- A few pinches of kosher salt
- A scoop of salsa
- A bunch of cilantro
- Pepper to taste
Mash it all up and serve it before it turns brown. You'll be the hit of the party.
Andy is the president, publisher and founder of OnMilwaukee. He returned to Milwaukee in 1996 after living on the East Coast for nine years, where he wrote for The Dallas Morning News Washington Bureau and worked in the White House Office of Communications. He was also Associate Editor of The GW Hatchet, his college newspaper at The George Washington University.
Before launching OnMilwaukee.com in 1998 at age 23, he worked in public relations for two Milwaukee firms, most of the time daydreaming about starting his own publication.
Hobbies include running when he finds the time, fixing the rust on his '75 MGB, mowing the lawn at his cottage in the Northwoods, and making an annual pilgrimage to Phoenix for Brewers Spring Training.
