Hummus love
We broke the fast!!! The two of us are eating grown up food and everything. Our V-Day, which we are officially celebrating later, was filled with munching on hummus and popcorn. Beau got me a new popcorn machine for Cupid’s Day, so I used it dammit. So yesterday I thought I should make Beau some hummus while he was ice fishing, he loves hummus. I was blending tahini, which is sesame seeds and olive oil, and juicing a lemon and working WAY too hard on hummus. So he gets home and I tell him it is done. The world’s best hummus is ready for ingestion. Since we can’t have bread yet, he piles up a cucumber and digs in. I was sitting there thinking, “I am so good. Best girlfriend ever.” His face looked like I shat in his eyeballs. “It smells like peanut butter.” That’s what he tells me. Well fuck that. I dragged his arse to the kitchen to see of he could do better. He (cough) did. I am a woman of my word and you heard it here. Beau’s hummus was better then mine. DAMMIT!!
Second Place Hummus
1 can of chickpeas (water reserved)
approx. 1/3 cup of lemon juice
1/4 cup of tahini
4 cloves of garlic
1-2 tablespoons of olive oil
1/2 teaspoon of cumin
dash of cayenne
1/2 teaspoon of salt
Tahini
2 cups of sesame seeds
little more than 1/3 cup of olive oil
Toast sesame seeds, but be careful because they can burn if not watched closely. It makes quite a bit, but you can use it for dressings as well. Food pro is a must, these little bastards will not blend in a blender.
Now with hummus, everyone likes there’s different. I made my own tahini and it comes out wicked strong, hence the peanut butter smell Beau was bitching about. Some people roast the garlic, it is all preference.
Smug Hummus
1 can of chickpeas
1/8 cup of tahini, seriously what is the point?
juice of whole lemon
6 cloves minced and sauteed garlic
2 tablespoons of olive oil
1 tablespoon of red pepper flakes
small handful of sunflower seeds
Beau’s came out much creamier because he had an indentured servant hulling his chickpeas for him. Where I used a food pro, he used a blender. Reserving 2 tablespoons of garlic, he took the reserve and sunflower seeds and mixed it into the final blended product whilst drizzling olive oil on the top. It looked pretty even though it was in an old Parmesan plastic container. We are nothing but classy.
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By LiLu, February 16, 2009 @ 2:05 PM
B and I do battle in the kitchen as well. We both have strengths and weaknesses… I’m better at seasoning things, but he’s better at actually cooking it. Works out well, actually.
By k8, February 17, 2009 @ 12:51 PM
It’s the garlic. Not the lack of tahini.