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Riegan
July 12, 2013
Though tomatoes are my second favorite fruit (after pineapple), I don't think I could do without that tree-grown-butter dip/spread/life-force of guacamole.
sunshyn220
July 3, 2013
I really love guacamole but I could still have avocados, so I'd have to vote for salsa. ;)
Jen C.
July 3, 2013
Couldn't go without salsa. Love guacamole, too, but wouldn't want to have to give up salsa.
paulinapererariveroll
July 3, 2013
I'll take salsa as long as you do not take avocado away. I eat it every single day! I as well as every fellow Mexican salseo everything.
Shanaralane
July 3, 2013
Like Pati said, you can sneak avocado into a salsa or have it sliced of food, so I must choose salsa. Where would we be without low calorie, high flavor salsas to zest up everything from breakfast to salad. Salsas forever!
Michelle M.
July 3, 2013
I am a guacamole fanatic. I do believe I could live on it forever. I make it for my family and friends all the time!
pattipanuccio
July 3, 2013
Guacamole for me. I love Pati's show I just have to turn down the heat, she makes it easy with all the fresh ingredients.
Lisa G.
July 3, 2013
I adore guacamole - doesn't everyone? But I'm going to try your salsa verde recipe and then you can ask me again.
Terri N.
July 3, 2013
I'm with Pati on this one! Lifetime of salsa! I can make a killer chunky avocado salsa with cilantro, etc! Best of both worlds!
Meg J.
July 3, 2013
i really love guacamole, but i think i'd have to pick a lifetime of salsa. i make so many different types of salsa (including one with chunks of avocado!) that i'd never, ever get tired of it. thanks for hosting such a great giveaway!
Lana F.
July 3, 2013
I agree with Pati! I will choose salsa as long as I can still have my slices of avocado!
logankruger
July 3, 2013
Pati's answer is right on! I'll live without guacamole if I can still have avocados! Looks like a great book.
Pattyjean
July 3, 2013
I would choose salsa for the same reason Pati did. But I also want avocados on the side!
Bill H.
July 3, 2013
Guacamole is nice but I have a pound of tomatillos on my kitchen counter and a browser tab open to a pico de gallo recipe I am raring to try. It is salsa all the way!
How's I.
July 3, 2013
Probably salsa, though I could spend a lifetime just trying to decide. (I like Pati's answer, though.)
Wentz
July 3, 2013
Oh well, you can't choose both? Ah, I'd have to pick guac since the kids love when they get to help daddy make the guacamole! I love that time in the kitchen together!
Justin
July 3, 2013
Although I'm a self confessed avocado addict, I think I'd have to go salsa for a lifetime. The amazing variety of peppers, ingredients, and flavours of salsa would take a lifetime to experience.
Jr0717
July 3, 2013
Guacamole. So many variations, and you can claim them all healthy because they have the omega-3 power of avocados as their base.
Amy B.
July 3, 2013
So difficult to choose, but compromise is my middle name. How bout guacamole salsa!
Shelbylee
July 2, 2013
I would choosea life without guacemole. Mainly because salsa is so versatile. You can have anything you want in it, have it spicy or sweet. Tomatoes or mangos.
The possibilities are endless.
The possibilities are endless.
Valeria P.
July 2, 2013
this is like Sophie's choice! How cruel! I think guacamole, but this is so hard!
thebro730
July 2, 2013
Tough choice....But while my stomach immediately lurches for the guacamole..... I think of all the varieties of salsa and my head kicks in and logically has to pick salsa. Yes a sound logical and delicious decision!!
cookinginvictoria
July 2, 2013
I would never want to choose because I love both, but I think that ultimately I would reside in the salsa camp. I love that there are so many variations (hot, cold, cooked and raw) and that one can make salsa from whatever ingredients happen to be in season. I could never give up avocadoes though. If I couldn't have guacamole, I think that I would just have to whip up a seriously delicious avocado salsa instead. :)
markandrew
July 2, 2013
I love a real complex salsa. But thats not to say that Guacamole is the BOMB.
Kelly B.
July 2, 2013
I would chose salsa to keep! It's a Mexican condiment like Ketchup to the American table. Can dress up "last minute" plain chicken or be the main component in Mole.
Susan S.
July 2, 2013
What a choice....I love both. If I had to choose just one, it would be guacamole!
Minerva P.
July 2, 2013
Una vida con salsa! A lifetime of salsa........because I could always make a Salsa Verde en molcajete and add aguacates.
Krystle
July 2, 2013
I'd go for a lifetime of salsa! You can make it raw or cooked, use it as a topping to a dish or cook meats in it. So versatile!
zora
July 2, 2013
Salsa encompasses a multiplicity of flavors, textures and temperatures which can provide endless variety for a lifetime. Raw salsas--green with chiles and tomatillos, red with fresh tomatoes, both with lime juice, onion and cilantro; roasted tomato, tomatillos, onion, garlic, lime juice, chunky or pureed. Cooked salsas are my favorites, with toasted and soaked dried chiles (guajillos and anchos), roasted onion, tomato, tomatillo and garlic, pureed until silky smooth with vinegar, lime, cilantro, salt and a drop of honey then simmered until the brick red color has deepened, the sharp edges have smoothed, and the warming heat of tongue-tingling spice is mellowed into one layer of many in the depth of flavor that unfolds. Guacamole is a pleasing one-note; salsa is a symphony.
Elizabeth L.
July 2, 2013
I choose a lifetime of guacamole! Life is incomplete w/o Guacamole! If I wanted something spicy like guacamole, I can always use Siracha :p
Debra B.
July 2, 2013
Oh my what a choice!!! I think I would have to choose salsa. There are so many types of salsa that one could choose from, that it would be the one thing I could not live without!!! Green salsa, red salsa, pineapple salsa.....the list goes on!!!! PLUS I LOVE them all!!!!
Desert D.
July 2, 2013
I choose a lifetime of guacamole. Which just means I'm ignorant of the ways of true Mexican salsa. Educate me, Pati! Pick me!
AntoniaJames
July 2, 2013
Guacamole, no question. And make it spare, please. Just lots of lime juice, some finely chopped cilantro and salt. And made with avocados so ripe they almost seem sweet. Seriously. ;o)
Marianne H.
July 2, 2013
I love both, but I can make a dynamite guacamole and my salsa is just okay. So I would have to say a lifetime of dynamite salsa!
Lisa J.
July 2, 2013
I was going to say guacamole because I love guac so much, but then I read what Pati said about the tomatillo salsa with avocado, and I guess I agree. So if she can be tricky (or cheat!), so can I. It would have to be salsa, because I can always add avocado to things. Especially if I can have pico de gallo salsa with some mashed avocado in it. It's still salsa, right?
adelinajs
July 2, 2013
I'm like Pati, I could do without guacamole as long as i could still have avocados!
Tracy H.
July 2, 2013
No contest, guacamole, for sure! For me, a perfect day always includes avocado.
Cindy D.
July 2, 2013
I lOVE them both, but if it comes down to it, I would have to say Salsa... We have an avocado tree, so we have unlimited guacamole or avocados for salads and sandwiches... YUM !!!!
aargersi
July 2, 2013
I am tricky - I have a salsa asada that includes avocados (posted here on Food52!) so I pick THAT and then I really sort of get both.
Henry S.
July 2, 2013
I think Pati's answer hits it on the button. Salsa! You can throw together an avocado tomatillo salsa. Ha, the best of both worlds!
mrslarkin
July 2, 2013
Go Team Salsa! plus, avocados aren't just for guacamole, so I won't be too disappointed.
amysarah
July 2, 2013
A lifetime of salsa...as long as that could include ones made with diced avocado (and if I happened to mash up the avocado into a guacamole-like substance, who's going to tell? Sssshhh...)
NELSON C.
July 2, 2013
I love salsa and I love guacamole, if we can mix both by adding guacamole to the salsa it will be my lifetime, then add it to chips, huevos rancheros and many more plates.
JDS
July 2, 2013
I'm totally with Pati. Would pick a lifetime of salsa but put sliced avocado on just about everything!
happymontycooks
July 2, 2013
Salsa but I'd eat a bunch of avocadoes. And I'd never actually want to have to choose. A life time of both.
Mona P.
July 2, 2013
I lifetime of guacamole...i eat it every week at some point. Can't live without it!
MichelleMags
July 2, 2013
I like Pati's answer...I can go without guac as long as there's ripe avocado in abundance.
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