Avocado’s Number

So I love food.  I love the way it looks.  I love the way it smells.  I love the way it tastes…at least most food, most of the time.  I dipped into a recipe book to make these little guys.  Apparently, it was for someone a little more advanced than me.  The instructions were along the lines of scoop 175g of cooked potato and mix with avocado, tomato, a soft cheese and various herbs.  Hmmmm…various herbs.  Yes, let me pull out my various herbs.  What the heck?!  I got a little spicy in the kitchen and let my creativity loose.

This is what I ended up with:

I poked holes in and cooked 5 potatoes in the microwave.  I sliced them in half and removed about 2 tablespoons of potato from each side.  I brushed them in and out with olive oil and cooked them for 25 minutes on 425.

I then mixed:

potato guts
1 sliced and diced tomato  (sliced and diced just sounds more fun)
2 sliced and diced avocados
2x2x2 fresh chunk of mozzarella (I didn’t have any soft cheese around)
1 T of salt
6 grinds worth of pepper
maybe a 1/2 to 1  teaspoon of basil
a sprinkle of garlic salt (I was out of cloves)

Potatoes came out and I filled them with stuffing and then I sprinkled them with Romano cheese

PS – Yes, I am aware that Avogadro’s number is 6.02×10^23

For those of you wondering how big that number really is…imagine marshamallows covering the entire continental United States 55 miles high.  That would be a mol of marshamallows.

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