I bought a handy-dandy avocado slicer from a downtown Toronto kitchen shop. It was beautifully packaged in its own presentation box. Linda talked me into it. She said no self-respecting Caribbean cook could live without an avocado slicer, and that Ann would likely be quite jealous when she saw it during her next trip through Bequia. I would have bought one for Ann as well, but we decided that space is at a premium on Receta so she’ll have to be satisfied with “borrowing” mine when she’s here. But, Linda, remember I said it might be a tad small for the avacados we usually grow on Bequia?

This particular avocado was big enough for four meals for two people… I had to take several swipes through it to slice it up completely.

But I must say, my new avocado slicer did do a fine job of slicing. I don’t know how I’ve managed without one all these years. And when I was buying this particular avocado from Doris yesterday, and told her of my new kitchen “toy,” she said not-to-worry; I’ll get lots of use out of it in the winter when our local avocados are out of season and we must make-do with the much-smaller imported variety.