Grapefruit and Avocado Salad

(Where the F is Mr. Hatandcoat? His last post here was 1/27. That's almost two weeks ago. I'm close to saying this is a defunct blog. I might just take it over as my own food blog.)

I saw a grapefruit and avocado salad recipe somewhere in my million-strong Google Reader feeds. Then I saw grapefruit (really nice-looking and -smelling grapefruit) on sale for 50 cents each at Giant. I decided to give this salad a go.

Grapefruit and Avocado Salad (beta)

• 1/2 grapefruit, no white bitter stuff
• 1/2 avocado, diced in kinda big chunks
• three leaves of red lettuce
• one knife's shredding of radicchio
  
• handful of walnuts
  
• olive oil
• honey
• red wine vinegar
• lemon juice
• kosher salt
• pepper

I put the leafy stuff in the bottom of my bowl, then put the grapefruit and avocado on top with a few walnut crumbles just for the heck of it.

The rest of the ingredients were for the dressing. It was about 40% olive oil, 30% honey, 15% lemon juice and 15% red wine vinegar, with a small sprinkling of kosher salt and pepper. When I tasted the mixture, it was like BAM vinegar BOOM honey BAP salt ZING pepper. After a few minutes, the flavors settled into sweet citrus with a tang.

Know Problems and Bugs (with the beta version):

1. The dressing was not quite what I wanted here. Too sweet.
   
2. The avocado was practically nonexistent. I couldn't taste it at all with all the flavors competing around it.

Planned Fixes

1. Try a saltier dressing to contrast with the grapefruit's juicy citrus and to bring out the avocado. I'm thinking something with a soy sauce base.
   
2. Try putting less of the dressing on it. My leaves were swimming by the end of it.