These treats are so beautiful that I cannot bear to slice them up and eat them... These California avocados are one of many varieties available at the Santa Monica Farmers' Market, and with their shiny, taut skin, they remind me of the avocados that grew in our garden in Kenya - eating them is one of my very earliest food memories - what are yours?
Can you guess what the other picture is? Candied mini-tangerines from Provence, a typical local delicacy that my foodie mum sent me.
These days, I sometimes make a gourmand snack I invented, the Banana Choc Oatmeal:
Make oatmeal.
Add a pureed banana.
When the oatmeal is still hot, add chocolate chips.
And there, you have a chocolaty, fruity, warm and healthy snack.
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I have to try that gourmand snack of yours. I'm salivating just thinking about it!
I had some oatmeal at a hotel restaurant once. Cost 14 dollars or something insane, but it was caramelized like a creme brule. Yummy.
One of my earliest food memories is Ovaltine. and chestnuts.
Your shot of the mandarines is beautiful - not to mention the avocados!
JOANNA - let me know how it turns out!
CLEVER PUP - oh, caramelized oatmeal, that sounds good. Then again, caramelized anything wins me over every time.
To me, chestnuts are reminiscent of Paris around X-mas time, when they're sold super hot, roasted on the street...
I always love your photos. Oatmeal is my earliest food memory; with lots of real butter.
A Riverside DR, dans notre premiere maison a Nairobi, nous avions un enorme avocatier qui donnait des avocats a peau violette dont je n ai plus jamais revu l espece , meme a Hawaii ou ailleurs. T en souviens-tu?
Blondie wants banana choc; the oatmeal, not so much.
JL - je me souviens surtout des histoires qu'on m'a racontees... et heureusement, j'ai plein de photos de mon enfance.
BLONDIE - why don't you talk to Taolechien, I suspect he still has some of my Toblerone stashed somewhere in his home...
Eat the avos, there are more where they came from. We haven't quite hit avo season up here, soon though!
lovely colour!
Your oatmeal treat sounds delicious! I must try that soon.
D. MOLL - I wonder, are Syndey and Taylor avocado eaters? I know they like all things green and fresh.
Love the pictures so great colours.
xoxo
These are beautiful. Wow!
wow fun...especially the Candied mini-tangerines that your mum sent you... tu es chanseuse, tu es chanseuse!!!! mille fois...;)
xxnancy
those look really good Mary-Laure! I can imagine already what they taste like from your pictures...
Also just saw your previous post, you are so lucky to be so near the sea.... :-)
enjoy the weekend,
Solange
certainly are beautiful!
I love your pictures
francesca
wow these look so beautiful! I love the colours
Wow, I love the way you photographed the tangerines. I would have loved to slice those avocados and set them beside the nachos, I made the other night.
xo
Your last two post makes me long for spring. It's still snowing over here.....
You'd have to be starving to bring yourself to slice those up!
Como saben esas mandarinas?
that loks SOOOOOO deliscious.
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We used to eat mashed avocado with garlic and salt on our toast in the morning. I, too, had this childhood food memory since the trees grew in our yard. But, my Mother's peach pies which she created amid clouds of dusted flour on the kitchen table were the best.
DAVE KING - that's exactly how I feel about those mandarins, and since Im not starving yet, they still adorn my counter.
ANONYMOUS - no tengo NI idea porque todavia no me anime a comer las mandarinas, de lo divino que son. Los avocados, MUY sabrosos.
SPANGELR - I mash the avocados and have them on toast too, just just a pinch of salt. I use the very heavy, chewy multi-grain bread from Rocken Wagner bakery.
Your mother's peach pies sound delicious. Who doesn't love a good pie???
Mmmm.. I love oatmeal. And bananas. And chocolate!
I've stumbled upon the same DELICIOUS combination myself. So warm, and comforting!
Love your blog<3
The candied mini tangerines are so pretty! Love that colour! Almost (but not quite) too good to eat!
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