Hummus - "from now on, it will be much more fun to be in the kitchen"

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Hummus – “from now on, it will be much more fun to be in the kitchen”
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Image by Pete Boyd
I made some hummus.

Ever since I helped in the Okasional Café kitchen a decade ago, building salads day after day, and witnessed Strapping Lee make tonnes of perfect hummus in a blender I was determined to make my own. Back then you couldn’t get away from home made hummus, all the vegan girls made it.
Along came ebay and I bought a blender but the particular one I got didn’t cut the mustard and my determination for home made hummus dwindled away and these days I buy it every week for a fair bit of money for tiny tubs of it. It’s a shame these intentions whither and decades pass whilst I dither.

Rachel’s away but she left this hand blender that I’d not looked at yet. I wanted to make something of the day and of myself so I grabbed the blender. It says on it “FROM NOW ON, IT WILL BE MUCH MORE FUN TO BE IN THE KITCHEN”. Wow.

Within minutes, hummus. Incredible. There it is, the real thing, a decade of prevaricating washed away in a couple of minutes. Can there be no turning back?

The recipe included salt but the instructions declined to use it; and it didn’t include lemon juice but the comments on the page put you straight about that.

What a great way to get garlic down you! I added twice the recommended bulbs cos it’s supposed to be so good for me for so many reasons including boosting your immune system that I try to cram as much down me as I can when I remember to eat it.

It’s useful having the laptop in the kitchen for this. Tho my ‘X server’ broke, which is inconvenient in the mission-critical environment of the kitchen, mid-recipe. I had to carry it back out to the living room after a restart so as to put Firefox back in touch with chickpea-recipe-1.php. Maybe I need Internet access in the kitchen. Maybe the recipe would have been in the disk cache anyway.

Concentrating with the Hand Blender