On Saturday, January 9, 2016 at 12:49:19 PM UTC-5, Dave Smith wrote:
> On 2016-01-09 7:00 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> > On Saturday, January 9, 2016 at 6:06:19 AM UTC-5, sf wrote:
> >> On Fri, 8 Jan 2016 10:35:53 -0500, jmcquown >
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> BTW, I ate some of the hummus on a cracker to be polite. I am not a
> >>> fan. Chickpeas yes, hummus, not really.
> >>
> >> I'm the opposite. Hummus is fine. Whole garbanzo beans, no way.
> >
> > I'm somewhere in the middle. Hummus is great, prefer whole garbanzo
> > beans not overcooked.
> >
> > I saw Bobby Flay make chunky hummus on one of his shows. I was
> > intrigued. Basically he made hummus, but reserved some of the
> > cooked chickpeas and mashed them coarsely, then added them back
> > to the smooth hummus.
> >
>
> Meanwhile, Jamie Oliver insides of processing it in a blender or FP
> until it is creamy smooth. I had had several unpleasant experiences
> with hummus until I had it in a local middle eastern restaurant where is
> was smooth and almost runny, and it changed my mind about hummus.

Gosh, I was unaware that Jamie Oliver was The God Of Cooking.

I'll admit that nearly every hummus I've ever seen was smooth as
silk, but my regular lunch spot has a chunky hummus of which I'm
very fond. They also clued me in to sprinkling zatar on it.

Cindy Hamilton