Monday Madness- Another Winner, a Guacamole recipe, and LE CREUSET!
Posted by Julieandcharles on Aug 22, 2011 in Appetizer/Sauce, In the Kitchen, Recipes | 14 comments
Let’s lead this off with some big Congrats to Jo Anne Grammond! You are the winner of a prize package from Paleonola. We will contact you so that Paleonola can send you your prize package in the coming days!
Le Creuset Grill Pan in Cherry
Next up: what are we giving up this week? After much debate, we’ll be parting with this lovely Le Creuset cherry cast iron square grill pan (value $125.00).
This pan is awesome for times when you don’t feel like firing up the grill (too hot, too cold) or you just want to cook inside. Grilled steaks, burgers, veggies – this will do it all! AND, it’s Le Creuset, which means it has the enameled cast iron. No seasoning required, it can go in the oven, yada yada yada. To enter: Send us an e-mail with your Amazon pre-order number for the book, share info about the book on Facebook, Twitter on your blog or via e-mail. Remember: you get entered multiple times for sharing the word in more than one way! Drop us an e-mail to: info at paleocomfortfoods dot com with those tidbits and you are IN for this lovely little lady! Good luck! We will draw the winner Sunday night, August 28!
And now for a recipe. If you know anything about us, you know that Julie is the real brains behind many of these tasty dishes. You can also bet your bottom dollar there is a guacamole recipe in the book.
Julie threw this batch together while on our visit to Las Vegas to shoot the promo video for Amazon. Notice that she isn’t measuring anything out. Recipes are great because they give you details on how to make something. However, once you are comfortable in the kitchen…you can throw some of your measuring cups to the side for things like guacamole. Make what sounds good. If you don’t like the final product, lesson learned and try again next time. It is REALLY hard to mess up guacamole.
We would encourage you to play around to your little hearts content on this one. Throw in some olives or habeneros, or some chipotle for that smoky/spicy kick. Trade in your lime juice for some fresh squeezed orange…the sky is the limit. Cooking, like anything, should be an enjoyable experience. If you will worry too much that it won’t “taste” right, stick to the recipe.
Pay careful attention to Julie’s dismantling of the avocados. She is quite the chef knife ninja. There are some helpful tips on how we scoop out the green goodness.
**Remember, the video isn’t going to follow our recipe to the T. That said, here is what is in the book.
Ingredients
YUMMY!
2 ripe avocados
juice of 1 lime
1 jalapeno or serrano pepper- minced (keep the seeds for extra heat)
1/2 small onion- minced
1 clove garlic- minced
1 roma tomato- seeded and chopped
2 tbs. cilantro- chopped
salt & pepper to taste
Directions
1- Scoop out avocado into medium bowl
2- Squeeze lime juice over avocados and roughly mash with fork
3- Combine all other ingredients in bowl and mix well
4- Serve immediately on sliced zucchini, squash or ham chips
** If you aren’t serving immediately, pay close attention to how Julie covers the guacamole with plastic wrap. Be sure to place the wrap directly on the guacamole to reduce oxygen exposure. It can keep for several days.
Thanks for the video. I learned some great tips, and that guacamole recipe looks very yummy! Ham chips? I must admit that I am intrigued.
How do you know if we shared via email or facebook?
Courtney, we ask you to tell us via our e-mail (info at paleocomfortfoods dot com) when you share! If you’re asking about how do we really know that someone shared…well, we can see via Twitter when people do the @Paleocomfort, and we ask that people do the @paleocomfortfoods on Facebook. We hope people would be honest about such stuff like e-mailing others. We also ask that they send us their Amazon order number too.
Hope to see you entered in the contest too!
I am really excited for this book to come out! I LOVE to cook and recently switching to a Paleo menu has kind of stymied my creation because I don’t know when I am falling off hehehe. I ordered my book on Amazon – 102-4399715-0223458 and am anxiously awaiting its release.
oh and one thing to point out – you forgot to list the lime in the list of ingredients
you are so right! Woops! All corrected – thanks for pointing that out to us Shawn!
Looking forward to making this recipe for Sunday football this year.
Are you tracking Twittter/Facebook mentions or do we need to send those in via email as well?
Send ‘em to us via e-mail (because the rest of life is like a sieve, so e-mail is the only controlled organization we have!). Thanks Mike!
Question:I preordered weeks ago when the prize was the Dutch oven. Am I still entered ?
would love to have that awesome pan.. cannot wait for your cookbook – ordered on Amazon – 002-1937335-7694640
I have pre-ordered your book on Amazon and would love to use the grill pan as I cook from the book!
Hi!!
Great contest..hopefully I’m the lucky one!
We’ve pre-ordered our book on Amazon since June 20th!!! I’m really excited and can’t wait to get it… hopefully soon. This is my order #: 105-4301678-7739457
Thank you very much!!
The Hurley’s
Quick question…are you going to print a Spanish version?
Thanks
Just saw this when I Googled my own name
but was never contacted about winning. Yay me! 
I’d love to collect my prize…
Jo Anne! We sent you 2 e-mails to your yahoo! address! Please contact us and we’ll get you all hooked up (just send us your address to info at paleocomfortfoods dot com).