Avocados

Well, my avocados are ripe!  Yesterday, I made this delicious grilled cheese sandwich, which I had pinned on Pinterest forever ago and finally had all the ingredients for:

Grilled Cheese for Grown-ups

I did a couple of substitutions, because I had just some plain ol' wheat bread I needed to use up, and I used provolone instead of the jack cheese.  I made one for my husband with pepperjack, and he loved it, despite being a little leery of eating a sandwich with so much green in it.

Here are a couple of other ideas, to use of the remaining 1 1/2 of my avocado that's left:

Apple and Avocado salad

Simple Chicken sandwich

Avocado Pasta (Vegan)

Avocado Egg Salad

"Super BLT"

Tortilla Roll-ups

Avocado Pie (it's supposed to taste like key lime...)

Avocado dessert

Avocado-Mango Salsa

Basic Turkey/Bacon/Avocado sandwich

And, of course, a list of avocado dishes would be incomplete without a 7-layer dip:

Seven Layer Tex Mex Dip

And guacamole:

Allrecipes.com top-rated Guacamole recipe

Celery

Many of the baskets in our area got 2 bunches of celery.  Usually, most of my celery sits in my fridge so long that it wilts, and I end up reviving it, only to use a little more before it finally turns yellow and brown and I throw the rest out.  So I need some recipes that use a LOT of celery if I want to make the most of it!

Here we go:

Homemade Celery Salt (from the leaves)

Cream of Celery Soup with Bacon


Vegetable stock

Celery-only Salad

I'll for sure be doing some peanut butter and celery, and I read somewhere that you can strip the leaves off, wash them well, and simply freeze them for use in soups later.  I may need to try my Nana's Waldorf Salad, and maybe Chicken Salad if the weather heats up at all in the next couple of weeks!  

Ideas

Cucumber & Lime smoothie (I'm considering adding some yogurt to it, too!)

Roasted Pears with Caramel Sauce

Apple and Avocado salad

Collard Greens

Pasta with Collard Greens

Vegetarian collard greens

Sweet Potato Chips

September 22nd Pocatello basket

This week's haul:

Bananas

Gala apples

Limes

Honeydew melon

Red Anjou pears

Avocado

Tomatoes

English cucumbers

Celery

Carrots

Collard greens

Sweet potatoes

Storage

Refrigerator

Apples

Limes

Cucumbers (in plastic)

Celery (in plastic bag or wrapped with foil)

Carrots

Collard greens (in plastic bag with damp paper towels; or freeze)

Counter

Bananas
Melon (2-4 days, until ripe)
Pears (until ripe)
Avocado (until ripe; to speed, place in plastic bag with ripe banana)
Tomatoes (stem down, cool, dark place)
Sweet potatoes (cool, dry, dark place)