But avocado does so much more – it's almost a perfect butter substitute. It can be used in sweet dishes (it goes especially well with chocolate) or savory dishes. 3.

One of Campbell’s favorite botanical biographies here is that of the Blas avocado, a large green-skinned fruit with flesh as runny as warm butter. He first found the tree about a decade ago in a ...

Use a 1:1 ratio to swap butter for avocado in any recipe. How to grow your own avocados. No matter where you live, you can grow an avocado tree in your own home.

Long before Henry Perrine discovered avocado trees in Mexico and started the first groves in Miami in 1833, this strange and exotic fruit was a favorite of George Washington.

In Hawaii, where there are about 200 varieties of avocado trees, one stands out. The Kahalu'u avocado, casually known as the butter avocado, is so voluptuous that it can spoil you for any other ...

The first husband left. Years passed and then I met Jay, now my husband of 32 years. Visiting his parents’ Largo home, I saw the avocado tree, a gnarled old thing showing its advanced years.

Nutiva’s delicious line of butter-flavored oils provides even more variety in the animal-free butter aisle, including vegan ghee—a form of clarified butter. With coconut and avocado oil as the ...

But as the decades wore on, as Mr. Hass’ high quality and heavily producing tree became more widely adopted amongst avocado growers, production scaled-up and prices dropped from $1 down to as ...