Cleansing Day 3 - What's for Dinner?

Spice-Dusted Avocado with Mango & Crab

(Origin: Zanzibar)

My experiemental Avocado dinner...was interesting.

I chose a recipe from one of my favorite cookbooks (an Indian Ocean Spice Route cookbook!)

You can purchase it on Amazon.

It's actually called: Where Flavor Was Born.

An interesting mix of spices...

Mix continuously over high heat for 1 minute to release the flavors.

I'm not an avocado fan, but my roommate let me try a cube of hers one night. She put a little salt on it and I downed it. My reaction? I re-thought the judgement I had passed on to this poor fruit.

Enter the (fake) crab.

A little scary, since I know the difference!!

My daddy cooks crab legs whenever I come home to visit.

Frozen organic mango.

I am also not much of a mango fan.

As I'm writing this post, I am wondering what caused me to "cook" this meal.

Oh yeah, the photography in the cookbook.

Mette Randem

But this is my photograph. And it still looks good.

I wish I could say it was delcious, but it was just different.

This dish is from another culture and it was just a lot of new tastes for someone who doesn't eat mango or avocado (which makes up 95% of it!)

But similar to sushi (with the crab meat and avocado combined).