Avocado Toast

Do you really need a recipe for avocado toast?  No.  At it's most basic, it's avocado.  On toast.  The whole recipe is right there in the name.  But if Chrissy Teigen and Gwyneth Paltrow can include recipes for avocado toast in their books that they sell you for money, I can include it on my blog that is free.  Consider this more of a guide to things that I like to put on my avocado toast, and that I think you should put on yours.

First, you need your base.  Now, you could use bread and toast it, however, I will offer up a different suggestion.  Last year I was doing keto for a while, and toast was a no go.  Since I love carbs I gave that up, but I did find something that was actually quite low in net carbs that is also delicious.  Crisp bread!  My favorites are the Dr. Kracker Pumpkin Seed Cheddar flatbread, or, for even fewer net carbs, Trader Joe's Norwegian Crispbread.  The Trader Joe's crispbread has 3 net carbs!  And is actually delicious.

Next step:  garlic spread.  That shit is delicious.  I was unaware of its existence until we moved into our apartment, which is across the street from a middle eastern restaurant.  All of the plates come with garlic sauce, and I love it.  Despite not loving garlic.  This whole post is full of similar contradictions.  Anyway.  You can get it at Trader Joe's or Whole Foods, or probably anywhere, really.  Just get it.  You will not be sorry.

After the garlic spread comes the avocado.  If you can find a fuerte avocado, get it.  It is far superior. At this point I should make a confession.  I didn't use to like avocado.  As it turns out, it's actually the texture I can't deal with; I find it gross and slimy.  But if it's mashed it's fine.  So I mash 1/4-1/2 (depending on the size of the base/avocado) of a ripe avocado on my avocado toast, and I can handle it.

At this point, if you have access to fresh, delicious tomatoes, slice them up and stick them to the mashed avocado.  Cherry tomatoes also work, but you still have to slice them.  If you live in a place where tomatoes are sad, hothouse grown, move on.  Wait until summer.  I live in CA, so there are delicious tomatoes at the farmer's market year round.

Now it's time to put an egg on it.  When I was using actual bread for my avocado toast, I would put a fried egg on top.  Fun fact!  I also used to not like any eggs but hardboiled, scrambled, and omelettes.  The runny yolk doesn't really work with the crispbread, though; it just make it soggy and structurally unsound, so now I do scrambled eggs.

Last, but not least, Trader Joe's Everything But the Bagel seasoning.  So good.  Sprinkle liberally on top.