February 23, 2011 new recipe

This evening we had an event (The Mental Health Center of Denver's Annual Meeting), so we had a very simple meal afterward. We had smoked salmon with homemade créme fraiche, and the new recipe was Rick Bayless' Toasted Almond Guacamole from Fiesta at Rick's. Rick adds chopped dried apricot--we didn't have any of those, so we skipped me. Rick came up with this recipe to recreate the flavor of wild avocados, which have a nuttier flavor than the Haas avocados we usually get here. It was really tasty! One thought--be sure to use plain tortilla chips with this. We had some black bean-roasted garlic corn chips, which are fairly tasty, but argued with the lovely flavor of this guacamole.

We drank a Borsao 2008 with this. It is a 75% garnacha 25% tempranillo blend, so it works well with spicy foods and was very nice.