{"id":948,"date":"2009-06-08T21:11:41","date_gmt":"2009-06-09T03:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/?p=948"},"modified":"2009-06-08T21:11:41","modified_gmt":"2009-06-09T03:11:41","slug":"guac-fest-09","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/archives\/948","title":{"rendered":"Guac-fest 09"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.passingfocus.net\/guacamole\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Guacamole party\" src=\"http:\/\/www.passingfocus.net\/guacamole\/images\/guac_2009__066.jpg\" width=320\" height=\"213\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nTwo weekends ago,   I participated in my first ever guac-off. My landlord (who&#8217;s about my age,   and lives nearby), hosted the first one last year. It was such a raucous success, he did it again &#8211; only this time, he contacted the Avocado Council, and got sponsored. How&#8217;s that for awesome? There were avocado poster, notebooks, magnets, and even avocado tools (they slice the skin and scoop out the fruit).<\/p>\n<p>Jason and I spent Saturday morning working on our recipe. I had this crazy idea to soak jalape\u00f1o peppers in lime juice &#8211; the goal being to spread the heat out, so you didn&#8217;t get a bite of superhot or a bite of bland. We also added some cholula, but not enough.<\/p>\n<p>So, it was a contest of 8 guacamoles. We made it to the quarter finals, but then lost (meaning, either 3rd or 4th place &#8211; they didn&#8217;t discern). Guacs went head to head, and everyone could vote.<\/p>\n<p>I think what the winning guacamole had was large chunks of fresh avocado. Mine was flavorful, due to the super-ripe avocados I used, but more the consistency of baby food because of it. I needed some super-ripe avocados, and some firmer ones, for texture.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to being a contest, it was also an excellent neighborhood party. I met new people, got to hang out with my favorite neighborhood friends, and eat a bunch of guacamole.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[164,163],"class_list":["post-948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bucket-of-sunshine","tag-eastie","tag-guacaome"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=948"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":955,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948\/revisions\/955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}