10 Great Avocado Recipes

1. Avocado Summer Rolls, The Tart Tart  //  2. Creamy Avocado Hummus, Joy the Baker  //  3. Smashed White Bean + Avocado Club, Real Simple  //  4. Mini Avocado + Hummus Quesadillas, Cookin' Canuk  //  5. Edamame and Toasted Coconut in Avocado, Joy the Baker  //  6. Avocado, Watermelon, +Cucumber Salad, Ambitious Kitchen  //  7. Chocolate Avocado Mousse, Adventures in Cooking  //  8. Avocado Spinach Grilled Cheese, Tastespotting  //  9. Avocado Popsicles, A Cup of Jo  // 10. Charred Corn + Avocado Pizza, Two Peas and Their Pod 

I remember being slightly repulsed by avocados as a child, although part of me wonders if that's only because we ate them so often.  (Like most children, anything I was 'forced' to eat turned into something I rebelled against eating).  A huge shift occurred in me when I went off to college, however, and now the great green fruit (yep, it's a fruit!) holds a permanent place in my top five favorite foods.  I regularly eat avocados in salads, in smoothies, with eggs, on toast, in burritos and wraps, and by themselves. I am fairly certain that guacamole is the best recipe invention of all time.  And in the summertime, the avocado is queen in my house.  I've been looking up a whole lot of recipes that incorporate avocados to use in our summer meals lately, so for this edition of 10 Great, I thought I'd share some of my favorite finds with you.  I've tried a couple of these already, and can't wait to make more of them in the coming weeks.

Are you an avocado fan too?  If you have a favorite avocado recipe/meal/treat, I'd love to hear it.