feature friday ingredient: avocado!

forgive us. the 4th of july and our annual family campout threw us off a bit with our feature friday. but we are back!

 oh man. don't even get this family started on avocados. we looove them. we put them on everything. truly. blt? throw an avocado on it. favorite burger? definitely throw an avocado on it. navajo taco? salsa taco?  chicken bacon ranch sandwich? enchiladas? nicki specials? mexican chicken crock-pot? all yes! and i'm just getting started. see what i mean? 

so anyway...needless to say, we are happy to throw an avocado on top of just about anything! so we are excited to hear what you love to throw an avocado on/in/with. so, send us your favorite avocado recipe by thursday, and we will feature one of you (and your blog!) on friday! in your email, don't forget to leave a link to your blog so we can stalk admire you and feature you!

send your recipe to

howetocook@gmail.com

Feature Friday Ingredient: CILANTRO

Remember our freaking sweeeet Feature Friday contest? 

No? Then go here to read about it. 

So here's a story...I am approximately 25 years old. A young chick to some and an old geezer to others. Others meaning my husband's little bro. A few years ago (3 to be exact), this little brother, McKay (who my son is named after. So obviously we like him a little bit) was 14. He was stressing about girls or school or football or something that was super important to him, and I was trying to give him advice. He was half-listening when he responded with, "Yeah. But Mindy...you were 14 in what, like the 80's?"

Umm.....yes. I am 40 years old.

WHAT?!

When I explained to him I was 14 in the year 2000, he could not believe that I was a "teenager in the 2000's??" I guess he thinks I'm ancient. Anyway, that brother-in-law said one day, as we were making tacos, "I love cilantro! I could eat it raw!" 

Umm...what?!

Haha. Anyway, as you can guess, this week's ingredient is one of our (and McKay's) faves:

CILANTRO!

  We loove cilantro and try to eat it on as many dishes as we can, so we want your favorite cilantro recipe--whether the cilantro be used as a garnish or a main ingredient. 

Send it to howetocook@gmail.com by this Thursday (June 23rd) and we'll pick one (or maybe two or three or four if we can't decide) recipes to feature this Friday!

Get excited! And then send your recipe!

Feature Friday! Wait. What the crap is that??

Okay. So here's the deal. I have only partially consulted with the seestas on this, but I'm going for it because I want to. Like how I just take charge? I pretty much wear the pants in the family. (Nicki will tell you she does, but really she's just bossy :) So we're starting a new 'feature' here on Howe to Cook. And it is...

da-da-da-DA!

Are you excited?? Get excited.

So let me explain...we're all foodies here, right? And if you're reading this, you are totally, absolutely, definitely, hopefully a follower, right? Okay. Stay with me. So because we love you and you are fabulous and we want to feature you for following us (say that 5 times fast), we are going to start Feature Friday! Woo!

And now you're still thinking, What the crap is that?? Yes? You're thinking that? Okay. Let me explain...

Basically, each Friday we will give you/post about an ingredient we love, and then for the next week (until Thursday) you will send us your favorite recipe that uses that ingredient. So it's kinda like an episode of "Chopped" only our ingredients will be normal and you won't have to use more than one. And you have more than 30 minutes. Lucky you! Then, that Friday (am I being confusing??) we will choose a recipe and we will feature YOU and YOUR BLOG and YOUR RECIPE here on Howe to Cook. Woo! Is that fun? I hope I'm not getting excited about nothing here. And don't tell me if I am. Food is exciting, people! 

So, we're staring today. And today/this week's ingredient is...

Wait for it...

Wait for it.

I said wait for it!

Okay. Calm down! Sheesh.
This week's ingredient is...

CREAM CHEESE! 

Ah! Did you expect anything else? It is, after all, our favorite ingredient :)

SO..now is the time for you to email us your favorite cream cheese recipe! It can be anything that uses cream cheese. Dessert, main dish, side dish..whatever! And it can be any kind of cream cheese, too (you know..because there are those flavored Philadelphia ones). And we will choose one to post next Friday! 

We are excited. Are you excited? Don't be too cool. Send us your recipes! We will rant and rave about how wonderful you and your blog are, and then we will give you all the credit for supplying us with a new fab recipe and everyone will print it and love it and share it with their friends and family and you will basically be famous. Are you really willing to pass that up? Yes, you. I'm talking to YOU! It is going to be great!

And besides, if nobody sends us a recipe, we will feel totally lame. And then we'll have to cancel Foodie Followers Featured on Friday and we'll feel even more lame for our idea going kerplunk. Oh, and you won't be famous. Sooo do it! Send your fave cream cheese recipe to howetocook@gmail.com and we will love you forever!

The end.

PS, We love you! Thanks for following us and reading our blog! Oh, and we have a sa-weet giveaway planned for when we get to 200 followers. So spread. the. word!