Like tomatoes and cucumbers, avocados are a fruit that is often used as a vegetable. They are classified as fruits because they are seeds with a protective coating around them. One of the things that makes avocados unique is that they do not ripen on the tree. They mature and fall from the tree, but they ripen off the tree. In this lesson, you will learn how to incorporate avocado into a variety of dishes.

Rubin & Ed (1991) An eccentric, unsociable young man is forced by his mother to make some friends before she will return his stereo to him. He is joined on a trip through a desert by a pyramid scheme salesman to assist in finding a location to bury a frozen cat. Written and directed by Trent Harris Cast: Howard Hesseman as Ed Tuttle Crispin Glover as Rubin Farr Karen Black as Rula Michael Greene as Mr. Busta Brittney Lewis as Poster Girl Anna Louise Daniels as Rubin's Mom Ray Gordon as Barking Man Dorene Nielsen as Ed's Mom https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102817/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubin_and_Ed

Almost every culture in the world consumes some combination of grains and legumes because that combination is a nutritional powerhouse. Together, grains and legumes will give you complete protein, especially in the absence of abundant meat. There are all kinds of grains that serve as fuel for the human body: oats, wheat, rye, barley, sorghum, wild rice, quinoa, and teff. Legumes include peas and beans and provide additional health benefits. In this lesson, you will learn some techniques for cooking various grains and legumes that you can put to the test in your kitchen.

The focus of this lesson is on moist-heat cooking methods. The world is covered with water, and most of the vegetables and foods that we eat are comprised primarily of water. For example, a head of lettuce is more than 90 percent water, and even our bodies contain about 70 percent water. Liquid is all around us, and moist-heat cooking is all about finessing the application of heat to liquid.