Baked Avocado Fries & a kicked up dipping sauce

Let the harvesting begin! This year we tried a couple of new crops in the garden; Eggplant and Brussels Sprouts. I did not realize that eggplants are pretty finicky, they need perfect soil to sun and water ratio. I garden but I am not a gardener. I really don’t have the time or the patience to cater to plants that need coddling. I have pretty good luck with most plants, though this year no zucchini; so sad!!! But you should see my cabbages and I have already canned a dozen jars of pickles from my cucumbers. Today I am going to try, for the first time mind you, to make my own sauerkraut.

I planted the Brussels sprouts mainly because they look really cool; my guys were not thrilled because they knew if they grew, we would be eating them. I hate wasting food which is why I am making sauerkraut. We planted 6 cabbages and they were all HUGE, I gave a couple away to family but that still leaves more than we can eat in a sitting plus they all came at once. I really should learn how to stagger plantings I guess that would be the non-gardener part of me. Did I also mention that the plants are making a bunch of mini cabbages?

garden photos 017 — SO CUTE!!! – that’s my husbands work trailer peaking thru the leaves

garden photos 023 — we harvested all the broccoli, new shoots coming back!

garden photos 016 — adorable, need to figure out when to harvest these baby’s

garden photos 021 — more baby cabbages growing from when we harvested the huge one. See the butternut squash peaking out in the upper left corner, we are going to have a ton of those this fall!

To go along with my hate wasting food mantra I had some very ripe avocados that I needed to use up before they went bad. I didn’t want to make guacamole like I usually do. I had taken fish out and have always wanted to try making avocado fries. Fish and Chips with a healthier chip sounded kind of cool. They were baked not fried and had a little dipping sauce that wasn’t ketchup; we do love trying something a little different.

avocado fries - garden frittata 031 — The wine is for me!!!

avocado fries - garden frittata 033 — I put mine on my silpat – if you don’t have one get one!!!! You’ll thank me later…

Baked Avocado Fries

1 avocado – sliced into fry lengths sized fries

1 cup flour

1 egg beaten

1 cup dried breadcrumbs

2 tbs grated Parmigiano Reggiano cheese

Kosher salt

Fresh cracked black pepper

Preheat oven to 450’

In 3 shallow bowls, I normally use a pie plates but these take out containers were just fine here. Flour in one, egg in another and bread crumbs in the third; season all with salt and pepper! Gently press avocado into the flour shaking off excess, dip into beaten egg and press into the bread crumbs. Place on a baking sheet once all placed, sprinkle with Parmigiano cheese. Bake in a preheated oven until cheese has melted and the fries are golden brown, about 15 minutes.