Avocado and Orange Salad with Orange and Cumin Dressing

I'm definitely having an avocado craze these days. It's crazy but I just had another avocado salad for the second time this weekend. I bought a bag of six for a ridiculously low price and they're ripening one by one so why waste them. I didn't feel like making anything for dinner this evening. It was a hot day and we spent the entire afternoon hiking and driving around. It was awesome, the sky was blue, there were flowers all over the place, there was hardly any cold breeze. Just the perfect day for a little hike. It was nice but it was exhausting. I just started walking last week trying to get back into shape and rebuilding my endurance for the up-coming Bike to Work Week on the week of May 11th. Everyday, during my lunch hour I would go and walk 4km of the 5km chip trail at UVic then take another little 4km stroll on the way home. It's not bad, it's a nice little walk, it usually takes me an hour and a half and I quite like it. It would be a great bonus if I drop some pounds. That would be just plain fantastic.

Anyhow, back to my avocado salad dinner. It was quite nice, the avocado was firm and has a nice texture to it. The radish added a nice crunch, same goes for the lettuce and the orange added a burst of freshness. I was about to throw in some cilantro leaves but I thought the flavour would be too strong so I skipped it.

1 avocado, pitted, peeled and sliced

1 orange, zested, peeled and sliced in segments, reserve the juice

lettuce leaves

5 radish, sliced

2 tbsp of olive oil

pinch of cumin

pinch of cayenne

2 tsp of honey

juice of half a lemon

salt and pepper to taste

I sliced the avocado. I zested the orange first then peeled and sliced it in segments. I sliced the radishes and placed everything in a bed of lettuce in a bowl. In another bowl, I added the orange zest into the orange juice, then added lemon juice, salt, pepper, the cumin (yeah, cumin works really well with orange) and cayenne then added the oil and honey and whisked everything together. I liked the dressing because it was quite light and not greasy. To finish, I poured the dressing into the salad and tossed everything before serving.