Now that the fall television season has started, you can break in that butt groove on your favorite couch yet again.

Nothing completes a good veg session like good food. But, don’t go store-bought when you can make your own. Living in the dorms, I couldn’t find any snack food that I really liked to eat during premieres of “LOST.” And if I had boring food, the show seemed less exciting.

Not being a huge fan of the green paste that was served under the name guacamole that I could get at my dining hall on nacho night, I had to find something quick, easy and tasty.
I decided to reinvent the wheel.

Instead of eating something because it was there and I wanted it, I went out and bought fresh ingredients to make what I expect to be guacamole.

You can make your own chips to go with the dip. This can be a win-win situation with quality of taste and cost or a waste of time depending on how close to the beginning of your show you start cooking.

Guacamole

Ingredients:
1 avocado
1 sprig (branch) of cilantro
1 clove (section within a head) of garlic
1 lime
1 roma (or plum) tomato
1 onion
pinch of kosher (or regular, but kosher is better) salt
hot sauce (depending on heat tolerance, you can go to a mild sauce)
Chips

Equipment:
Knife
Bowl
Spoon
Cutting Board

Cut the avocado in half.

To de-pit the avocado:
Take the half with the pit (that’s the round ball-thingy in the center) and hold it in your palm peel side down and very carefully whack the pit with the sharp side of the knife. I can not iterate how important it is that you be careful. But, this technique is the easiest way to remove a pit. Then, with the pit on the knife, gently pinch from the dull side of the knife the pit off. It will pop off if you do it right.

Scrape out the good green stuff with a spoon into a bowl.

Cut the lime in half and squeeze a half’s juice over the avocado.

Mash the lime and avocado into a chunky paste.

Peel and cut the onion into Chiclet-sized pieces. Add about 1/4 c. of onion to the bowl and store the rest in a plastic baggy in the fridge. It will last for a few weeks and it’s already cut for future projects.

Peel the clove of garlic and chop into the smallest pieces possible and add to the bowl. Remember, the main ingredient of guacamole is avocado, not garlic. You don’t want to overpower the flavors with the pungent aroma of garlic, which will numb your taste buds and your roommates’ sense of smell for the next three hours.

Chop the tomato into the same size pieces as the onion. Remove all seeds and pulpy stuff from the tomato before adding it to the bowl.

Remove the leaves from the cilantro sprig and chop coarsely. I don’t even bother with a knife for this part. I just rip up the leaves. It also removes the smell of garlic pretty well from your hands.

Add a pinch of salt and mix well.

Taste your food.

Remember you have salt on the chips so you don’t want to over do it.

Add a dash of hot sauce and taste again. Add more if you need to.

Eat and relax as Jack and Sawyer duke it out.

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