Reddit reviews Rick Bayless's Mexican Kitchen: Capturing the Vibrant Flavors of a World-Class Cuisine

I cannot recommend Rick Bayless's Mexican Kitchen highly enough. It's my go to for authentic mexican cooking from all over mexico. It talks you through basic ingredients, base sauces, techniques, and recipes for 450 pages. All of the recipes have been collected by him on his travels around mexico. Probably the best $20 you'll spend if you love to make mexican food.

Go buy this book - http://www.amazon.com/Rick-Baylesss-Mexican-Kitchen-World-Class/dp/0684800063/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1313691721&sr=8-1 It'll keep you busy w/ those things for a while. I've done the chipotle salsa out of it, amazing base for lots of stuff.

Some avocados, some minced garlic (I often like to roast it first to mellow it out a bit), lime juice (usually just one), salt to taste, cilantro (if everyone eating it is a fan), and occasionally some chopped onions and tomatoes, but I'll usually leave them out.

But yeah, traditionally I think it's really just avocado, garlic, salt, lime juice, and cilantro (coriander in NZ?).

And also, I didn't mean to say anything bad about your guac, I'm sure it's tasty - I merely just wanted to point out that it's not authentic. :)

edit: also, if you really are interested in pretty authentic Mexican food, Rick Bayless has a couple of really good cook books. I have both of these and they are great. The Mexican Everyday book is especially awesome for tasty, quick, weekday-friendly options. Although I don't know how easy/hard it might be to obtain some of the weirder ingredients in NZ...