Guacamole, split into mango guacamole and toasted pumpkin seed guacamole

Pit six ripe avocados and scoop the flesh into a big bowl; season with lime juice, chopped cilantro and salt.

Add a chopped red onion and a little chopped jalapeno, seeds and all, and mash everything together. Taste.

Variation: divide the base in two; peel a ripe mango, cut the flesh from the pit, chop it and stir it into one half.

Variation: grind toasted salted pumpkin seeds to as smooth a paste as the food processor will make and stir it into the other half.

Normally cover directly on the surface with plastic wrap until serving.