One of our favorite dishes to make is guacamole. We use it as a dip, on tacos, with eggs, or straight up with a spoon out of the bowl. Sure you can mix it up and get fancy and add lots of stuff to it, but we have a basic four ingredient guacamole that takes minutes to make. Four ingredients. Stuff you usually have on hand any way. “Hey honey, can you go make some guacamole?”

A few friends and I are hosting a progressive dinner of sorts, and I decided to bring my guacamole for an appetizer. Each of the other blogs is posting a dish for the party on their blogs today. Here’s what everyone’s bringing. Don’t they all look amazing?! (I know I’m hungry.)

and here’s what everyone’s bringing:

We’re also hosting a great giveaway with $550 worth of prizes from KitchenAid, World Market, and Woot Fruit! Be sure to enter at the end of the post.

Here’s what you’ll need for the guacamole:

-4 avocados, diced
-2 tomatoes, diced
-1/2 lime’s worth of juice
-1 T of celtic sea salt, ground

Dice and add the avocados to a bowl and mash them with a potato masher.

Add your diced tomatoes, lime, and salt, and mix. That’s it, you’re done!

and then go nuts on it with some chips.

Doesn’t that look good? It’s hard to make guacamole look good since it’s all green and mushy, but I can assure you that it tastes amazing. Some other things that we add to the mix are taco seasoning from Trader Joe’s (MSG free!), cilantro, or onions.

Okay, time for the giveaway!

One lucky winner will win: A kitchen tools set from KitchenAid, a $200 gift certificate from World Market, and a margarita machine and fruit from Woot Froot! This entire package is valued at over $550! You guys are sure lucky, I wish I could enter and win. ;)

For even more awesome dinner ideas, check out the Kitchenthusiast Blog from KitchenAid, and check out all of the awesome dinner party decor options from World Market!

Woot Froot is excited to bring you the ease and convenience of fresh cut peaches and nectarines just in time for summer. Perfect for summer snacking, dishes and drinks – like peach margaritas. Fill out the rafflecopter below for your chance to win this Margaritaville Margarita Maker and get the party started. A $200 value.

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Hi there, I'm Ann Marie! I get a kick out of making stuff, love pops of color, and am a garage sale junkie. My style is simple, comfy vintage. (I would say clean, but my house is rarely clean.) I think your home should be a place where you feel happy. Join me as I share glimpses of our everyday life, creative projects, and tips to make your life easier.

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Puppy Mo (by Greater Manchester Police)

words about learning stuff

A drawing that’s only for people of legal age who aren’t driving

A imagem de uma professora de Juazeiro do Norte chorando desconsoladamente correu o País nas últimas semanas como um rastilho de pólvora nas redes sociais. O pranto de Antônia Lucimeire Oliveira se justificava. A Câmara dos Vereadores do município cearense aprovou no último dia 7 a redução de 40% nos ganhos dos professores, em nome do corte de custos do município. A notícia chocou os brasileiros. Os mesmos vereadores haviam aprovado, um mês antes, 30 dias extras de recesso, que se somaram a outros 60, garantindo três meses de férias à custa do contribuinte – os vereadores ganham, em média, R$ 10 mil mensais, e em nenhum momento cogitaram diminuir seus proventos para ajudar a sanear as finanças da terra do Padre Cícero.

thefrogman:

Gastby Adventures [tumblr]

mercurialme:

I believe I can flyyyy

It’s Plane To See …

Yes! All the planets are, more or less, on the same plane. This means that their orbits all follow the same flat, circular path. This is illustrated by the following animation:

The planets are not perfectly lined up on the same orbit, though. If we define Earth’s orbit to be “the perfectly perfect ecliptic”, then the other planets orbit within a few degrees of that. Why?

When the solar system formed, there was a massive rotating cloud of debris and dust spinning around the young star we now orbit. We call it the Protoplanetary Disk, which would make a great name for a spaceship. When something spins while being tethered in place by gravity, its mass wants to fly outward into a pizza-like shape, like frosting flying from errantly-aimed eggbeaters. The Earth even bulges a bit around the equator because of this “force”. This means that before the planets ever became planets, their planetary “stuff” was already on the same plane. Naturally, they thought this was just fine, and as they matured into the orbs we know and love, they stayed there.

This can be easily observed in the night sky. When multiple planets are visible, you can draw the line of the ecliptic through them! It’s also why we seem to have so many nights when planets are “near” each other in the sky, but never quite on top of each other (called “conjunction”, check it out in this video)

By now, many of you are fidgeting uncomfortably, barely able to contain the following comment: “Bah! You are wrong, science man! Pluto doesn’t orbit on the ecliptic! It’s wonky as hell!”

Well, the question was “Are all the planets in the solar system on the same plane?” And the answer to that is most definitely yes. You’re just going to have to get over the fact that Pluto is not a planet anymore. Its tilted orbit is one of the main reasons why.

The first step to healing is acceptance. The second step is realizing that this wacky ball of ice is so off-kilter that it’s lucky it didn’t fly right off into interstellar space:

(images via Wikipedia)

simonsaysbark:

The puppies are four weeks old today!!!

Explore, explore, chew, play, chew, nap!!!

They went from peanuts to potatoes and now… THEY ARE CORGIS!!!! SOOOOOO CUTE!!!

That IS actually kind of awesome.

recorrupted:

vegasmo:

The only kind of marks you should ever leave on a dog.

I’ve reblogged this photo so many times & that’s my favorite comment on a photo in the history of the world.

Yeah, it’s been on my tumblr like 8 times now. Ridiculously Photogenic Bully.

100 Pictures of Henry Cavill ❤ → (15/100) 

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hahahaha ha ah  ha h

lordcherry:

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I really don’t think this is the triforce I was looking for…

There’s no problem a good cuddle can’t solve, that’s what I always say.

HELL YEAH LOOK AT THIS DOG ON THAT TABLET-THINGY JUST MAXIN’ RELAXIN’ RIGHT DER. SHIT USING HIS NOSE TO DO SHIT TO THAT TABLET, THAT DOG RIGHT THERE KNOWS HOW IT’S DONE. BONUS ICE CREAM YEEEEEAAAHHH.

(GENTE, olha esse reflexo na fachada de um prédio na manifestação do Rio, no centro da cidade! #ProtestoRJ/@brunoernica)

Brazil is up in arms. Hundreds of thousands are in the streets. The capital building in Brazilia was surrounded, then stormed. Here's some pictures of last night's goings-on, and above, a video explaining some of the reasons for the uprising.

(Manifestantes concentrados em torno do Congresso Nacional (Brasília, 2013)/@FotosDaHistoria)

(Thanks, Spark!)

sweet-land-of-libertea:

thackerybinxx:

shinga-tumblr:

It’s okay kitten, I too have been that drunk

OH my GOD

infomercial kitten.

why is no-one willing to sell him a special kitten straw for $19.95