Excess Avocados

One of my favorite things to do is to take all the weekly grocery ads, go through them, and make a list of all the things I could potentially want to buy.  I do this with the idea that I'll go to Walmart and have them price match these items.  I don't always get to Walmart to get all these items (for one reason or another), but I still love doing it.

 

With that said, I bought a couple of avocados (one of my favorite foods!) from Walmart.  THEN we went to Costco and bought 5 more beautiful avocados because the price was so right.  When we bought all of these avocados they were days from being ripe...then somehow they ALL became ripe within a day or two of each other!  So I needed to figure out what to do with them before they went bad.  We made salads a couple times with avocado on top, I made quick and simple guacamole (another favorite!), then I saw this recipe on Pinterest.  They are called Avocado Cream Cheese Puffs...and I decided to make them because I happened to have all (well, almost all) of the ingredients.  They look fantastic in the picture, so I thought I'd give it a go.

 Now the recipe is, in essence, puff pastry, mashed avocado, mango salsa, cream cheese, salt and pepper.  I read the blog and the blogger said her husband raved about them.  So, since I had ripe avocados begging to be used, I decided to try it.  Although, I must admit I was skeptical that it would really be that good...so instead of my precious puff pastry I used a rolled tube of Pillsbury Crescents.  I followed the recipe pretty closely...mashed avocados with a little salt, pepper, and lime juice, small bit of cream cheese, and salsa.  I made 8 total (from the tube), 4 with mango salsa, and 4 with regular salsa.  I cooked them at 375 for about 12 minutes.  Anyway, they tasted exactly how you'd think warm salsa, avocado, and cream cheese would taste.  Nothing special.  And the texture was just too much to get over.  And my husband, bless his little heart, said, "can I be honest with you?...I don't really like those crescent things you made."  =)  That's okay I didn't really like them either.  I don't love cream cheese to begin with so that wasn't great, and I really just couldn't get over the warm avocado taste.  So I will not be making them again, but maybe someone will.