PREPARING AVOCADOS

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1. After slicing avocado in half around pit, lodge edge of knife blade into pit and twist to remove.

2. Don’t pull pit off with your hands. Instead, use large wooden spoon to pry pit safely off knife.

3. Use dish towel to hold avocado steady. Make ½-inch crosshatch incisions in flesh of each avocado half with knife, cutting down to but not through skin.

4. Separate diced flesh from skin with soupspoon inserted between skin and flesh, gently scooping out avocado cubes.