Tuna Avocado Cakes

Hi Friends!

I decided to take yesterday off of blogging – the weekend was crazy busy and I needed to just relax. I did finally get caught up on my blog reading though. My Google Reader fills up pretty quickly, it is crazy!

If you don’t use Google Reader, do you use some other way to keep track of your blogs to read? I used to subscribe through email for the blogs I like – but then my email box was blowing up. I recently switched to GR and I love it

I spent most of Saturday with my sister-in-law and my niece – I stayed over at their house and we had so much fun! We made sloppy joes, brownies and watched The Fighter – which I absolutely loved!

We also may or may not have watched an entire Jersey Shore marathon that was on Saturday and Sunday.

On Sunday I met up with a friend who I have not seen in over a year – which is crazy since she lives ½ hour away. We’ve known each other since 4^th grade and I’m so glad we have stayed in touch. We met for coffee tea and I told Jason to not expect me home for at least 3 hours. Well, I should have said 6 hours. Yes, SIX hours we sat in that coffee shop and talked. And I’m pretty sure if the coffee shop wasn’t closing we would have stayed longer!

For dinner last night, I finally got around to making a recipe that was been creeping around in my head. I saw a recipe on Matt’s blog a few weeks ago for a Hummus and Avocado Crab Salad and it sounded amazing.

I decided to use his recipe and make crab cakes – except I had tuna on hand so I made Tuna Avocado Cakes!

Tuna Avocado Cakes

Combine 2 cans drained tuna (5 oz cans) with 1 mashed avocado (use 1 medium or 2 small) — add salt, pepper, splash of lemon or lime juice. Mix together with 1/2 cup panko bread crumbs and form into 4 patties. Cook over medium high heat in a saucepan (coat with cooking spray or use a small amount of oil) — about 3 minutes each side.

I thought these tasted delicious — there isn’t a strong avocado flavor, but it gives the cakes nice texture.

These went perfect with dinner – thanks for the inspiration Matt!

I originally wanted to use these avocados for this idea, but I had to wait until they were ripe.

I won these avocados from Lisa’s giveaway last week – they were sent all the way from California. Check out this adorable card:

They have an Avocado of the Month Club that Jason and I are thinking of joining — 20 Avocados delivered per month for $30 — these babies are HUGE and I think are definitely worth that price.

 Thanks SoCal Avocados! (and Lisa for hosting the giveaway!)

*The winners of the book giveaway are:

#1 — Michelle @ Chasing Ambulances

#2 — Christine @ Food.Fun.Fabulous

#3 — Isaacsgirl110

Please email me at couchpotatoathlete (at) gmail.com — and let me know some of your favorite food items, magazines, etc. I’ll choose a few things and throw them in with your book. Thanks to all who entered!

~Holly