Wholly Guacamole

I bought a guacamole making kit from Trader Joe's the other day because I thought it was cute and reasonably priced. It contained two avocados, a jalapeno pepper, a small onion, a clove of garlic, a lime, and two plum tomatoes. I meant to use it this weekend when family was visiting but the avocados took a long time to ripen and weren't ready yet. I have learned the hard way that cutting into an unripe avocado for guacamole is not a tasty idea. So I made the guacamole for Keagan's playgroup this morning instead. I used a trick from Alton Brown with the jalapeno and "roasted" it using a collapsing veggie steamer basket on my stove. Then I rinsed it under cold water, peeled the charred skin off, and seeded it. The remaining pepper is more fruity than spicy. For assembly- I leave the avocado in pretty good sized chunks, but some gets smashed in the process as well. I seeded the tomatoes and chopped them, diced the onion, diced the jalapeno and minced the garlic. Then with a squeeze of the lime and some salt, it was done. I brought along some tortilla chips and pita chips for dipping. It was delicious! The picture isn't super elegant, since I have it packed in tupperware for transport, but oh well. I thought the "aftermath" shot was pretty funny, sort of a reverse mise en place :)