I’m still recovering from my pizza cheese blister on the roof of my mouth. Yesterday I tried to continue eating like I normally do and it was a painful day! Hot coffee, ow! Warm open-faced egg, cheese, avocado & tomato sandwich, ow! Taco, ow! Meringue cookie, ow! Turkey foccacia sandwich, ow! Tomatoes with balsamic vinegar, ow!!!
Today I decided to try again. We had room temperature oatmeal for breakfast, lukewarm coffee, and for lunch I decided that nice soft bread wouldn’t hurt. But what to put on that bread? Peanut butter & jelly? As long as the peanut butter was smooth, I suppose, but a sweet lunch didn’t sound appetizing. Lunch meat with cheese? Sure, but boring! And then I thought of the amazing eggs my mom brought me! She buys eggs on the side of the road from a family that raises organic, free range, bug & weed/grass fed chickens with egg shells and yolks in the most beautiful colors! Egg salad sounded like it’d hit the spot.
I shelled the eggs after they were done cooking & had cooled. I grabbed the pickles, the yellow mustard and then went hunting for the mayo. “Hello? Mayo? Where are you?”, I said. Where in the heck was it? Oh, there, on it’s side in the very back. *phew* But wait! I looked for the expiration date & it had expired two months ago! This keeps happening to me. I don’t think my mom has ever had mayonnaise expire my whole entire life. Of course, I don’t use the name brand she uses so that could be why. But then, why don’t they make smaller jars in every brand?

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Now what? Eggs shelled and no mayo. No plain yogurt either. I ran to my computer and Pinterested egg salad and there it was. The most recent egg salad recipe that I had forgotten to save on my Plan To Eat menu planner! Avocado Egg Salad! I was so excited! Avocados were in the fridge and I ran in there to get them.
I followed the recipe, except for the lemon juice because I thought that might alter the flavor and now I remember why that was important! The avocado has started to turn brown. I wonder if my husband will try it anyway? I also didn’t put in the green onion because I’m not a huge fan, plus it was an extra step and I was really hungry. I made two separate sandwiches, one with dill pickle relish and one without. Don’t bother trying the pickle relish… yuck. But the one without was AMAZING! I am so excited to have found this recipe (again) and will add it to my list of fantastic recipes!