Guacamole recipe

We haven’t done anything with lemons for a while, and our lemon trees are still lemoning for all they are worth. The lemons as yet are still unripe, but the green skin recalls to mind one of the tastiest things in the world, the avocado.

Although the avocado has been in Australia since the late 19th century, it first become popular in the 70s. One of the recipe books from this time in a private collection we know of refers to them as “avocado pears” and “alligator pears” due to their skin texture. This recipe book says the very latest way to serve them is halve the avocado pear, destone it, pour some vegetable oil in the hole, garnish with salt and pepper and serve.

We’re not sure if that recipe really captures the beauty and tastiness of the avocado, and we’re also fairly sure that eating an avocado stone amount of oil is not really very healthy.

So instead, we wanted to share our favourite way to eat avocados, guacamole. Plus, it another use for lemons, so everybody wins.

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Dips dips dips

As the final word on picnic food (for now anyway) a reader has emailed us a couple of favourite dip recipes that he likes to take on picnics (thanks Ned!). They all look delicious and pretty healthy, so that’s two wins in one! Plus, all three include some lemon juice, which means they’re all instant Heritage Hill favourites. You can eat them with all sorts of things – toasted turkish bread, water crackers, rice crackers, on sandwiches or toast, on slices of raw veggies (carrot and hummus are particularly great together), on fresh bread or anything else you have handy…

Hummus
juice from 1 squeezed lemon
1/2 cup of tahini
2 cloves garlic—roughly chopped
14 oz (400g) canned chickpeas, rinsed and drained

Put everything together in a blender and whizz.
Stop whizzing, taste. Adjust ingredients to taste. (Some people like a little salt in it too)
Eat.

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Making a picnic blanket

Ok, so having read our posts on the best picnic food (here and here) you’re all sorted for picnic food, but what about a picnic blanket?

Some people have picnic blankets made for them by family members or friends, some go out and buy blankets from a store, but we love the idea of taking a little time and making one for yourself.

Don’t worry if you can’t sew a stitch, we’ve done a Picnic Blanket round up on the net and found one for everyone from expert sewers to wary novices… read on!

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Ultimate Picnic Food, pt 2

Here at Heritage Hill we love a good picnic. Various members of staff have their preferred picnic style, special rugs or baskets or favourite places to go. There are so many variables for picnics, setting, number of guests, activities during the picnic, utensils, but the main difference in picnics seem to be choice of food.

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