Day 13: Fried Guacamole?

 It is always nice to have a weekend morning to spend time to cut up some fruit. It does take time to get the mangos, kiwi, berries and oranges. I paired the bowl of fruit with a new batch of the firehouse cobbler. I made them again in muffin form and will have several serving for later on this week.

For lunch I went with another veggie burger with some freshly made sweet potato fries. I used the tin foil again, which worked alright, but I am on the lookout for some parchment paper today while shopping...

Now, the most dreaded part of the evening. Going out to a restaurant for dinner. I have to pat myself on the back as I did make some excellent choices. We went to Buku in downtown Raleigh - Global Street Food. We started with some Baba Ghanouj. Although the dipping chips were probably not the best option, we did load up each chip with the dip. For dinner there were some options, but I went with this Ethiopian dish. (Ethiopian Lentil Wat potato, swiss chard, carrot, red onion, berberé spice, injera flatbread). Never in a million years would I have looked for this item on the menu, but believe it or not, it was damn good!

We then went to the American Idiot show at the Memorial Auditorium. The show was good, although extremely short. Maybe 90 minutes. We did know most of the songs in the musical and it was certainly upbeat and fun, although trying to piece together Green Day songs into a story line was challenging at best.

We did go out afterwards for drinks. We made it to the Oxford where we had some wine and ordered an after dinner appetizer. What immediately caught my eye was a 'fried Guacamole'. (Panko and chile crusted avocado deep fried and served with pico de gallo and chipotle ranch). Against our better judgement we ordered this intriguing menu item. After looking at the final product and taking one bite it was obvious that this was a horrible mistake. Guacamole tastes so good on it's own, why would you need to 'fry' it? It is certainly apropos that we saw 'American Idiot' tonight because this is certainly a stupid idea to create such a dish and one of the main reasons why America is in the shape that it is in today.

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