Rodney

I love them. I usually eat at least one a day: diced up at breakfast, with eggs.

I even most of the the varieties by sight: Haas, Pinkerton, Gwen, Reed, Bacon, Fuerte. Is anybody else out t2here enough of an avocado freak to discuss their favorite types? I'm a big fan of Reeds, Pinkertons and Gwens -- which are all round greenskin avocados, not the black pear-shaped Haas you see everywhere.

How do you like to eat avocados? Do you have any favorite recipes? Guacamole recipes?

Here's my standard guacamole recipe:

Garlic guacamole

As many ripe avocados as you have (Hass, the black guys, have the most oil, so they make the smoothest guacamole)

Four large cloves of garlic per avocado, chopped

Lemon Juice

Salt

Tobasco

Peel and mash the guacamole in a bowl with a fork; add a dollop of lemon juice and work the mixture until it's smooth. Mix in the garlic. Salt to taste. A couple of shakes of tobasco, and you're in business.

You can add cilantro and tomatoes if you want, but the blast from the garlic will overwhelm them. Everybody loves this, unless they hate garlic.