Comments on: Avocado Popsicles

By: vanessa

vanessa — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 20:07:02 +0000

my mom used to make these when we were kids. she’s filipina. This is actually the first memory i have of avocados, so when i tried them in quacamole and other savory recipes I was surprised at the lack of sweetness! It kind of turned me off to avocados in savory dishes and I’m just now learning to appreciate the avocado and all of its greatness! can’t wait to make the pops and reminisce back to my carefree childhood days!!

By: Paulo

Paulo — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 01:13:41 +0000

Avocado ice cream and popsicle are really famous in Brazil. By the way, we often enjoy avocados as a dessert. Avocado smoothie really rocks! :)

By: EmJayBee

EmJayBee — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 05:47:46 +0000

I grew up with 2 avocado trees in our backyards, and remember my childhood summer days eating avocado ice candy. I never had avocado popsicle though! Must be good! These days, I eat avocados with my BLT or with my club sandwich.
I once brought Magnolia avocado ice cream to work –to show my Hisapanic co-workers that I wasnt joking when I told them that avocado to us was “dessert”. One of them turned her head away and said, “I’m gonna throw up”, upon seeing the ice cream!

I can’t believe she was that repulsed! Kinda O.A. , I think….

By: Vicky Go

Vicky Go — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 16:19:02 +0000

We had an avocado tree in our backyard & in the summer it was usually laden w fruit. We never ate them in salads like they do here in the USA. We either ate them out-of-hand, as is, like eating mangoes. Or we would make, not popsicles, but “ice-candies”. The same popsicle mixture – I think we used evaporated milk, with brown (panocha) sugar & maybe a teaspoon of vanilla & sometimes a squeeze of calamansi juice (to keep the avocado from turning brown. We poured this into ice cube trays, froze them & then placed the cubes in heavy glasses & ate them like halo-halo.
Here in the States, if I find big nice ones at the store, I make the same mixture using whole milk for my husband who just loves them (the kids think the mixture is “Gross!”). But I don’t freeze it, just refrigerate the mixture.

By: ihid

ihid — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 00:37:29 +0000

a challenge for us here in CDO with 5 hour daily power blackout.

By: junb

junb — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 23:26:25 +0000

Hi MM Im sure you’ve tried Indonesian version alfocad.

By: sunflowii

sunflowii — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 16:32:05 +0000

MM:
we use honey instead of sugar.
my mom also adds chunks of langka.

By: Brian Asis

Brian Asis — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 16:19:53 +0000

I still like my avocado raw please :D

By: betty q.

betty q. — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 16:11:40 +0000

Yes, mga Mrs.! Even I have encountered the “iffy” look by the cooks at the restaurant. I go in the cooler and find these avocados staring at me and calling my name! So, in they went in a cheesecake…I figured how can I go wrong with cream cheese, and all the goodies. While I was mixing it, I got all these weird looks…so I mashed up some and added creme anglaise and froze like your popsicles.

Ha! Next morning, when I came to work…there was a whole line of ripe avocadoes on my table and the popsicle trays right next to it!

By: frenchadobo

frenchadobo — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 15:27:28 +0000

@atbnorge lol ! exactly ! they told me that we have somehow a different palate for some kinds of food. but who cares ? avocado eaten sweet style brings a lot of childhood memories back in the philippines