HMoC!! My new favorite thing in the world is Avocado Gazpacho! It’s like eating guacamole with a spoon! This recipe is 100% raw and 200% delicious.

To start this trip to delicious city, you will need to cut up 1 zucchini and 2 small yellow squash in about 3/4 inch circles. Slice 1 ring of onion about the same thickness (and then into fourths) and 1/2 a red bell pepper into chunks.  Put these ingredients into the bowl of your food processor and pulse so its choppy but not too small or in a paste.  These veggies will be filler in your gazpacho.  Transfer this mixture to a medium size bowl.

Cut the corn off of 2 cobs and add to the vegetable mixture in the bowl.

Put 1 avocado in the bowl of the food processor along with 1 medium size tomato (already pre-chopped) and pulse this so its chunky (but watch out! the avocado will turn to guac if pulsed too much). Add this mixture to the veggie bowl and add the juice of 1 lime and a pinch of sea salt.

Next, put 2 avocados in the food processor along with 1/2 of a small jalapeno (seeded), 1 clove of garlic and the juice of 1 lemon.  Turn the food processor to ‘On’ (instead of pulse) and let these ingredients turn into a paste (or sauce).  Pour this  sauce into the gazpacho bowl along with some some water and whisk together.  The amount of water is up to you…I added it twice making sure that each time I did it wasn’t too much.  I left it kinda of thick but you can add more water if you’d like it more soupy.

Once plated, I topped my gazpacho with some raw sunflower seeds and red pepper flakes. This recipe will serve 3-4 depending on how much you like it. I had 2 helpings and so did Loren and we had some left over.  Its kept in the fridge since last night so I may snack on it today (hehe). Loren ate his as gazpacho and with chips (like guac).  It tastes like fancy guacamole; every bite you take you can taste the corn, the spice of the jalapeno, the zucchini and squash.

Delicious!

*update: im eating the leftover gazpacho now for lunch and its even better after it sits overnight! i know most gazpachos you let sit but I was weary because this one had so much avocado in it and it oxidizes quickly.

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Here at the Rustin house, we take exercise very seriously. I switch up my exercise routine between going to the gym and running, doing the elliptical and/or the bike, walking/running around the neighborhood, doing crunches at night (courtesy of my Bender Ball *see below*) and doing Yoga using either Wii Fit on the Wii or Let’s Yoga on the Nintendo DS (both great work out games!!!).

Last week we had an out of town visitor staying with us and he wanted to see the sights of Atlanta.  Thursday we went to Stone Mountain to hike up to the top and do all of the other little games/sights inside Stone Mountain Park.  I had a BLAST climbing the mountain! It’s a mile to the top and at first you’re just using rocks as stepping stones but then it turns into a steep flat slope for the last 1/3 (?) mile.  There are handrails at one point to help you with the steepness of the mountain.  I’m tempted to go back and try to run up to the top (hah!).  I would go here weekly for exercise but its $8 to park and I don’t want to spend $8 a week to park. Maybe I can find a buddy and we can each pay $4…any takers? (hehe)

**I do not recommend buying a Bender Ball. While the ball is easy to use and makes doing crunches more effective, the company rips you off.  Your account will constantly be charged $20 a month and they keep sending you DVDs without permission and taking more money out of your account for them.  I contacted them THREE times to get them to stop charging me.  Finally my bank handled it for me because they wouldn’t stop.