Hummus

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My local coop--North Coast Coop in Eureka and Arcata, California has a great

selection of natural hummus and many other locally made vegetarian spreads,

including tofu from our locally made organic tofu. These stores are the one the

main reasons I continue to live here. I cannot imagine trying to be a healthy

vegetarian and having to rely on commercial grocery stores. However, in large

cities there are some quite nice natural food stores now.

 

Kathleen

Eureka CA

 

veggiehound <veggiehound wrote:

As for hummus, it's a wonderful food. Although used by many as a dip for

crackers, chips/crisps, or crudites, it also makes a wonderful addition to many

vegetarian sandwiches and, if thinned or thinly spread, can be used on toast

instread of nut spreads or, er, stuff like Marmite and Vegemite. There are at

least two versions of it in the Recipes, I'm sure. <goes to check> Yup, one

posted by me as Chick Peas Spread and one from the BBC ;=) as Hummus.

It's in the lunches folder. (Must make another folder.)

 

There are many flavoured versions in the shops - everything from tomato to

pepper and whatever else they think of (our local supermarket had something

llike 6 or 8 flavours at last count), but commercial ones aren't as nice as

those

you make yourself. I made up a batch the day before yesterday - just a simple

version with 2 cups chickpeas to two or three Tbsp tahini, 3 or 4 cloves of

garlic, juice of 1 or 2 lemons (I like mine garlicky and tangy), cayenne and

salt. Whoosh it all up and lo and behold you have hummus to eat and some to

freeze for another day. Some like a pinch of cumin or some coriander leaves /

cilantro whooshed in there too.

 

Best,

 

Pat ;=)