KORINA MOSS: Most readers know me as the cheese lady because of my Cheese Shop Mysteries. However, in real life, I can't eat as much cheese as I'd like to, because I have Meniere's disease and have to keep my sodium low. At the moment, I'm having a Meniere's flare-up, and the only way to battle it is to lower my salt intake significantly. So I'm sharing with you a breakfast I love that you can make low salt. The other great thing about avocado toast is that you can add different ingredients to it to suit your taste, especially if you're not salt-sensitive -- mushrooms, caramelized onions, tomatoes, smoked salmon... or cheese, of course! I belatedly decided to make this one with mushrooms.
LOW SALT AVOCADO TOAST FOR ONE
1 slice of bread of your choice (I have no sodium Ezekiel bread)
1 egg
1/2 ripe avocado
1 wedge lemon
Mrs. Dash Everything But the Salt
1 tsp salt-free sunflower seeds
Instructions:
Cut avocado in half at the pit and mash half in a bowl. (Avocado saves better if left in its skin with the pit.)
Add the juice of a small wedge of lemon to taste.
Add Mrs. Dash to taste.
Toast your bread.
Cook any extra ingredients. (Here I fried up mushrooms in a touch of olive oil.)
Fry or poach your egg. I like my egg a little firm but with the yolk still runny. If I wasn't so lazy, I would've poached it. I fried it with spray in the pan, but you can use unsalted butter.
Before your egg is done, spread avocado mixture on toast. Add sunflower seeds. Add any extra ingredients. Add egg.
It's so satisfying, very filling, and you never miss the extra salt. As made, the sodium content is about 70 mg. Enjoy and have a happy head and a happy heart!
READERS: Do you love avocado as much as I do? How do you feel about low salt recipes?
FONDUE OR DIE
The lazy, hazy, dairy days of summer are coming to a close in the Sonoma Valley. . . and so is someone’s life.
The small town of Yarrow Glen’s neighbor, Lockwood, hosts an annual Labor Day weekend bash: Dairy Days. And Willa Bauer and her cheese shop, Curds & Whey, refuse to miss out on the fun. Willa is thrilled to celebrate her favorite thing—she is a cheesemonger after all—and this festival goes all out: butter sculptures, goat races, cheese wheel relays, even a Miss Dairy pageant. Too bad the pageant runner, Nadine, is treating Dairy Days prep like it’s fondue or die and is putting everyone around her on edge. When Willa finds Nadine’s dead body under years’ worth of ceramic milk jugs, the police aren’t sure whether the death was an accident. But fingers are pointing at Willa’s employee, Mrs. Schultz, who steps in to help the pageant after Nadine’s death. Someone wanted Nadine out of the whey, and Willa is going to find out who.
Releasing 10.22.24
My Cheese Shop Mystery series is available now everywhere books are sold.
KORINA MOSS is the author of the Cheese Shop Mystery series (St. Martin’s Press) set in the Sonoma Valley, including the Agatha Award winner for Best First Novel, Cheddar Off Dead and the most recently Agatha-nominated Best Contemporary Novel, Case of the Bleus. Her books have been featured in PARADE Magazine, Woman’s World, AARP, and Fresh Fiction. To learn more, visit her website korinamossauthor.com.
