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Eric Tanaka’s Avocado Dinner, by Shelley Lance, Blog Editor

I was invited to this dinner but couldn’t attend because I had out of town visitors- boo hoo!  TDR Executive Chef Eric Tanaka is one of my favorite chefs in the world, and, as it happens,  I really like avocados (who doesn’t?)  This is a dinner that Eric created to promote the California Avocado Commission, and Leslie Kelley, writes about it on Al Dente blog, here.

I love Eric’s avocado skordalia, and I wish I could have tasted that avocado gelato on spicy shave ice!

Note: photo credit to Robin Layton.  If this Dungeness Crab Wild thing looks delicious to you, the recipe is in our crab cake cookbook,  I Love Crab Cakes! (Where we call it Avocado and Crab Salad Cakes)

July 25th, 2011

One Response to “Eric Tanaka’s Avocado Dinner, by Shelley Lance, Blog Editor”

  1. Chuck Says:
    July 25th, 2011 at 12:58 pm

    I was fortunate to have attended the dinner. ET did an amazing job with the menu, and the food was spectacular. It was fun to have a composed as well as “create your own” Crab Wild Thing on the plate to experiment with. My favorite dish was the lambs tongue with the avocado skordalia. The Avacado gelato on aleppo pepper ice was a delicious finishing course!

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