Avocado Caesar Salad with Homemade Croutons!

So quite often I go through these phases where I just crave something every single day and have to have it.  Most recently, I went through a cheese and pickle sandwich phase.  We literally had to load up on cheese, pickles, and bread and I had one every single day.  Right now, I'm going through a Caesar salad phase.  Every time I'm hungry, I just want a Caesar salad!  So I've been eating these things non-stop for the past few weeks, but absolutely hate store bought croutons, so I make my own of course.  These are so good and really does the trick.  Tonight, I added avocado, because I can.  And it was good!

Avocado Caesar Salad

Serves: 2

Ingredients:

1 bundle of romaine lettuce, washed and chopped

1/4 cup of freshly grated Parmesan cheese

1/2 avocado, sliced into cubes

drizzle of Caesar salad dressing (we used Newman's Own, it was delicious!)

1 cup homemade croutons (recipe below)

Directions:

Toss all ingredients in a large bowl and dig in!

Home Made Croutons

Ingredients:

5 cups cubed ciabatta bread

1/4 cup olive oil

1 tbs of oregano

2 tsp of garlic powder

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. 

Place the bread cubes in a large mixing bowl. Pour spices over cubes and drizzle with olive oil.  Toss until bread is evenly coated.  Pour onto a baking sheet and spread out.  Place in preheated oven and bake for 5 minutes.  Take out and toss bread cubes.  Return to oven for 5 more minutes.  Remove and cool.  We store ours in a Ziploc bag in the pantry.  Good for at least 2 weeks (if they last that long!)