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The Roasting Tin Around the World

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Baked Avocado with Walnuts, Blue Cheese and Honey

Introduction

This is my nod to the classic eighties dish of stuffed avocado, which I always think of as very American after reading The Bell Jar as a teenager. Helpfully, this version has no crabmeat – it’s a combination of the baked avocado stuffed with blue cheese and bacon which I had in Tennessee, and the (unbaked) version my mother used to make when I was younger with raisins, walnuts and Philadelphia.

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Ingredients

walnuts
Roquefort or vegetarian blue cheese
yogurt
raisins
avocados, halved and stoned
smoked paprika or cayenne
chopped flat leaf parsley
baby leaf spinach
For the dressing:
olive oil
lemon, juice only
honey
sea salt flakes, to taste

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