jonny Lupsha Cookbook, Entry Two - Avocados del Media.

Cooking Appliances -

- Oven

- Double Boiler

- Microwave

Ingredients -

- 1 avocado

- 2 strips bacon

- 1/2 habanero pepper

- 1/2 jalapeno pepper

- 8 oz. monterey jack cheese

- 1 thick slice of tomato

- a handful of cilantro

- 1/4 lime

- 1 tsp. ground cumin

- 1 serving tortilla chips

Ok, this one has a lot of prep/cook time (by the standards of someone with an infant to entertain, anyway) so let's get right to it. The good thing is, about half the ingredients here will be diced, chopped or minced and thrown into the rest. This is a great lunch for one, but read through before trying yourself - you may want to switch around the order of some of the prep and cooking so you can have it all hot and finished at the same time.

Remove the seeds from the habanero and jalapeno and de-vein them - if you can't take the heat. Otherwise, leave them with the flesh of the peppers. Slice and dice both and mix them up together.

Now, pull the cilantro leaves off the stems and mince the shit out of them. You want almost all the pieces to be the perfect size to stick in your teeth and ruin a first date or job interview.

Pre-heat your oven to 350 and continue the recipe as follows. When the oven reaches 350, put the bacon in for 10 to 15 minutes, flip it, and let it go for another 10 to 15 minutes.

Throw your half-pound block of Monty Jack in the double boiler on low-medium heat. It's probably a good idea to slice it into small cubes or shred it. Keep an eye on it and stir it while you prep the rest of the ingredients.

Halve the avocado and use a spoon to get that enormous pit (and its skin flakes) out of there. Then keep using your trusty spoon to get the pulp of the avocado away from that dark green skin. Throw away, or burn in your backyard, the skin and the pit.

By now the Jack should be near melted. Pour in the cumin, peppers and most of the cilantro (saving two pinches for later), and of course, keep stirring. Yeah, we're making awesome from-scratch pepper jack sauce.

As the bacon finishes, put your avocado halves in a microwave for 45 seconds (with an apple, if possible - the chemicals will keep the avocado extra moist while they're irradiated with warm, nuclear delight). Take this 45-second opportunity to cut the tomato slice into six wedges (like pizza slices), chop the bacon into little bacon flakes and quarter your lime. Take the quarter of lime you're using and cut it in half as well.

Ok, now it's mostly a matter of presentation. Place the avocado halves, insides facing up, on your serving plate. Fill the pit holes with generous scoops of the pepper jack, then three tomato wedges apiece, then one more layer of pepper jack, some bacon flakes and the remainder of the cilantro. Squirt those lime wedges onto each and serve with the chips. If you're like me, you probably have plenty of pepper jack leftover, and maybe some other ingredients, so feel free to pour those over your chips and make some quick nachos alongside your avocados.