Avocado Soup
Ingredients (4 to 6 servings):
4 avocados, flesh scooped out
4 tablespoons lime juice
2 cups vegetable stock
1/2 or 1 jalapeño or serrano chili pepper
3 garlic cloves
1/4 cup cilantro
2 teaspoons ground cumin
2 teaspoons adobo seasoned salt/seasoning
1 can of smoked oysters
sour cream
Put all ingredients, except the oysters and sour cream, into a blender or processor and blend until smooth. Refrigerate for several hours. Serve garnished with a spoonful of sour cream (low fat type is fine), topped with a few smoked oysters.
WORD HISTORY:
Oyster-This word is related to the first part of "osteoporosis." It goes back to Indo European "oest," which had the notion, "hardened substance;" thus, "bone, stone." This gave Ancient Greek the transliterated "ostéon," meaning "bone," which produced "óstreon," meaning, "oyster." This was borrowed by Latin as "ostrea," which passed to Old French, a Latin-based language, as "oistre." In the meantime, Old English had "ostre," borrowed from Latin "ostrea." The Normans brought the French form to England, which reinforced, but by the 1300s, altered the English form to "oyster."
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