{"id":927,"date":"2016-10-22T09:52:57","date_gmt":"2016-10-22T12:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ronspencer.com\/?p=927"},"modified":"2016-10-22T10:06:03","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T13:06:03","slug":"freezing-avocados","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ronspencer.com\/?p=927","title":{"rendered":"Freezing Avocados"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"content-list-component mt-paragraph text\">\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"930\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/ronspencer.com\/?attachment_id=930\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ronspencer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/quac.jpg?fit=870%2C603&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"870,603\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Apple Apple&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"quac\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ronspencer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/quac.jpg?fit=640%2C444&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-930\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ronspencer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/quac.jpg?resize=300%2C208\" alt=\"quac\" width=\"300\" height=\"208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ronspencer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/quac.jpg?resize=300%2C208&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ronspencer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/quac.jpg?resize=768%2C532&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ronspencer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/quac.jpg?resize=250%2C173&amp;ssl=1 250w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ronspencer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/quac.jpg?w=870&amp;ssl=1 870w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Living on an Island that gets slammed my Hurricanes and Tropical Storms, our yard ends up getting covered in not only dead trees, branches and palm frawns&#8230;.but tons of Avocados.<\/p>\n<p>Avocados in the store here are approx. $3 each, so throwing these babies away&#8230;.is a NO NO. \u00a0We do give away bags when we can, but since we are\u00a0HUGE guacamole lovers (and since I would each tacos daily) we needed to find a way to save what we could. \u00a0When you allow them to sit out in Bermuda, an entire army of ants decide to take over&#8230;and make the avocados their home.<\/p>\n<p>So after looking at dozens of recipes and ways to save our avocados for future, I think the following are the best options.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"author-card__details-container\"><span class=\"author-card__details__name\"><a class=\"author-card__details__link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/author\/juliethomson\" target=\"_blank\" data-beacon=\"{&quot;p&quot;:{&quot;lnid&quot;:&quot;author&quot;}}\" data-plid=\"juliethomson\">Julie R. Thomson,<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"author-card__microbio\">Food writer, wrote an article back in 2012 on the Huffington Post. \u00a0Thank you Julie, for the below ideas, you are a life saver.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"content-list-component mt-paragraph text\">\n<p>So&#8230;there are two ways you can freeze avocados.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Wash the avocado, skin still on.<\/li>\n<li>Cut the fruit in half, and peel.<\/li>\n<li>If you are opting to keep them as halves, put them in a Ziploc bag and freeze.<\/li>\n<li>If you\u2019re pureeing, either mash the avocados with a fork or in a food processor with a little bit of lime or lemon. Store in a resealable bag and freeze. It\u2019s a good idea to put indentations in the bag to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.travelingspoonblog.blogspot.com\/2012\/03\/how-to-freeze-avocado.html\" target=\"_blank\" data-beacon=\"{&quot;p&quot;:{&quot;mnid&quot;:&quot;entry_text&quot;,&quot;lnid&quot;:&quot;citation&quot;,&quot;mpid&quot;:3,&quot;plid&quot;:&quot;http:\/\/www.travelingspoonblog.blogspot.com\/2012\/03\/how-to-freeze-avocado.html&quot;}}\">make for easy portion sizes later<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"content-list-component mt-paragraph text\">\n<p>Now there\u2019s a catch \u2014 isn\u2019t there always? Something happens to avocado when you freeze it. The texture is just not the same once it thaws. So while you won\u2019t want to be eating slices of these once-frozen fruit, they work great for making guacamole, dressings and spreads. So don&#8217;t throw those avocados that the recent Tropical Storm or Hurricane knocked own, just freeze what you can and eat your fill of guac all year long!<\/p>\n<p><em>A huge thanks to\u00a0<span class=\"author-card__details-container\"><span class=\"author-card__details__name\"><a class=\"author-card__details__link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/author\/juliethomson\" target=\"_blank\" data-beacon=\"{&quot;p&quot;:{&quot;lnid&quot;:&quot;author&quot;}}\" data-plid=\"juliethomson\">Julie R. Thomson,<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"author-card__microbio\">Food writer, for the above inspiration.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Living on an Island that gets slammed my Hurricanes and Tropical Storms, our yard ends up getting covered in not only dead trees, branches and palm frawns&#8230;.but tons of Avocados. Avocados in the store here are approx. $3 each, so throwing these babies away&#8230;.is a NO NO. \u00a0We do give away bags when we can, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":928,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[29,39],"tags":[41,20,66,62],"class_list":["post-927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bermudafoodie-2","category-condiments","tag-condiments","tag-cooking","tag-fruit","tag-vege"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p82n0m-eX","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ronspencer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/avocado.jpg?fit=773%2C580&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ronspencer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ronspencer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ronspencer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ronspencer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ronspencer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=927"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/ronspencer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":937,"href":"https:\/\/ronspencer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927\/revisions\/937"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ronspencer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ronspencer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ronspencer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ronspencer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}