Hey there mister style (which is a name of no one in particular – who may/maynot exist)! You want to know how I make the guacamole?! The best guacamole in the whole world (at least my little world) . . . well the alright – here we go.

This is the stuff that you will be needing (in no particular order):

• avocado
• tomato
• onion (red)
• garlic (fresh minced)
• hot sauce (I prefer cholula)
• cilantro
• lemon
• lime
• salt
• pepper

There is an odd kind of alchemy that seems to happen when all of the ingredients get all kinds of mixed . . . oh – blah – blah – blah . . . here is how it all gets thrown together.

Start with a nice big bowl and then put all of the ingredients in . . .

1. Maybe 2-3 nice ripe avocados (ripe means slightly squishy – unripe means not so tasty – and hard to mash up).
2. Probably 1 tomato (I like those tomatoes on the vine – but that is probably just marketing – the only ones that I stay away from are the cherry tomatoes [ they are way too small – and require a lot of cutting up] and heirloom tomatoes [they kind of creep me out with their odd colors and shapes].)
3. 1/4 to 1/2 of a red onion diced up nice and small (sometimes I use vidalia “sweet” onions to mix the world up a bit)
4. 2 cloves of garlic smashed with the flat side of your knife and then minced.
5. The rest of it (salt, pepper, cilantro, hot sauce, lemon and lime) are totally to taste – so you will have to experiment.)

I seem to use a good bit of lemon and lime and am under the impression that it keeps the guacamole a brighter green for a longer amount of time (ooh – here is a fun fact – I was under the (false) impression that if you left the seeds from the avocados into the bowl after the guacamole was made it would “magically” keep it fresh – but evidently that was all a lie to make me look lame (like I needed that).)

Still with me? Alright then – squish it all together – and sooooooo good . . .