Conquered the Green Dip!

This weekend my friend Lina & I decided to make something we certainly like to eat, but never really thought about cooking it ourselves the whole way through - Why, when everything stands in front of your nose on the supermarket shelves, right? But no, we accepted the challenge and made it happen: The DIY Avocado-Dip, Guacamole.

The original recipe was in German, which first needed to be translated because my friend only knows English:

Recipe for traditional Mexican Guacamole

Ingredients

- 2 very ripe avocados
- 1 big or 2 small limes
- 1 little red onion
- 2 – 3 cloves of garlic
- salt, pepper and chili-spices

- (2 vine tomatoes)

- (1 chili-pepper)
- (parsley / coriander)
- (2 tablespoons of yogurt)

Our Tip:

When buying ingredients for something you’re about to cook for the first time, you better precisely read what’s required (in our case we didn’t pay much attention to the very ripe avocados …).

How it’s done:

What it should look like

1. Peel the onion and the garlic cloves, chop them as small as possible and give the pieces in a medium-sized bowl. If you like it spicy, you can cut a jalapeño or chili-pepper and add it to the mix, but it’s not a must.
2. Now halve the ripe avocados, extract the core with a spoon and scrap or scoop out all the green flesh (any brown spots removed previously).
3. Mash the flesh of the avocado into the bowl and mix it with
   the onion and garlic pieces till it forms a creamy mass. Then instantly squeeze the lime juice over it, so that the avocado paste doesn’t get brown.
4. Season the paste with salt, pepper, chili-spices and taste it. The DIY Guacamole is finished!
5. Serve it in a small bowl and garnish it with little leaves of parsley or coriander and a small slice of tomato.

Everything went fine until step 3: The avocado was obviously not as ripe as it should have been and refused to get mashed. “Find the blender!”

We still stuck to the recipe and added all the spices except the chili-pepper, because it already had an intense smell and we were "sort-of-afraid" of the taste after that one chili :). In addition we also poured a little extra lime juice over it and yogurt, threw in some tomatoes, gave it another spin in the blender and voila …

… We made a smoothie. Cheers!

Lara without K

Hello y’all!

Because I’ve never really read any blogs or actually “followed” someone on one, the answer is pretty clear why I never  thought  about starting a blog to let people know me better - but OK, let’s give it a try …

The name for my post is Lara without K because most of the people who I introduced myself to didn’t quite get my name right. I could definitely count on the 3^rd try to clear things up – that I was Lara and not Klara, finally. I didn’t found out yet where the problem is; maybe I have a weird accent, perhaps I don’t sound that clear in my English, German or B/K/S language, should I speak louder or with my mouth wider open? Nah. I’ll just say: “Lara, you know, like in Tomb Raider”.  Things mustn’t get boring, right ;).

My mother and I in summer of 95'

I’m a Slovenian 22-year-old Aquarius with her mind maybe a little bit off but with her heart in the right place. I was born and still live in Maribor, the second biggest city in Slovenia. In my country, I was a part of the first generation (93’) of children, who went into 1^st class with 6 instead of 7 years of age. So, I went to primary school for straight 9 years, but I think I turned out just fine. I'm still very close to my family and doubt that that will ever change (even after they send me to a 9-year-lasting primary school ^^).

In high school things got a bit complicated. I failed my first year at “Prva Gimnazija Maribor” (First Gymnasium in Maribor) because of so many doctor/specialist appointments and not being able to attend my classes regularly. For months I was transferred from Maribor Hospital to Ljubljana Hospital and back. Only one doctor seem to know what has been going on with me … I got the diagnose Lupus or SLE. After almost 8 years of taking meds, countless doctor appointments my disease is in “remission” so I can study at UNI Graz in peace and hope for the best. They say: “The disease isn’t curable …”, I say: ”… for now!”

Taken in Koper 08', Slovenia

My passion was photography, drawing and writing poetry. I’ve inadvertently put these things aside (boyfriends and stuff) but I’m definitely going back on that train. I love group sports, not so much with kicking sth. (my legs get all bruisy so fast) than playing with hands (such as volleyball, tennis, basketball, badminton etc.). I feel very nature-near, so that I would rather spend the vacation outside in a tent than a fancy-trillion-star-hotel. I Like making handcrafted things, I think I may be a bit OCD-like :D, or I’m just a really neat girl who likes her things in their place and who gives you, a stranger on the bus, a tissue because your nose is running and it’s getting her nerves J.

My cousin Mateo

That’s about it. I consider myself as an uncomplicated, friendly, open-minded person who likes to enjoy life and everyone else should too.  Hang onto your hobbies, people you care about and enjoy yourselves in the most way possible!

Thanks for reading!