[london.food] Hummous [Was: Re: Useful items]

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From: Kate L Pugh
Subject: [london.food] Hummous [Was: Re: Useful items]
Date: 20:42 on 27 Nov 2003

On Thu, 27 Nov 2003 15:38:26 +0000, Juliet Kemp wrote:
>> Kake's recipe:
>> http://www.earth.li/~kake/cookery/recipes/hummous.html

"Skin the chickpeas" is possibly the most important feature of that recipe.

On Thu 27 Nov 2003, Natalie Ford <natalie@xxxxxxxx.xxx> wrote:
> The recipe I have been using does not say to skin or rinse them.

I never ever liked home-made hummous better than even the crappest
supermarket hummous until I started skinning the chickpeas.  It makes
an amazing difference.

Oh, and always rinse canned beans, unless you particularly like the
flavour of salty gloop[0].  I really don't understand recipes that say
"save the liquid from the canned beans" as if it had some kind of
flavour that you don't want to lose out on.  I think people who advise
this should be made to drink a pint of the stuff.  Yuck.

Kake
[0] Greg is hereby forbidden to make jokes about any other substance
that may fairly be described as "salty gloop".

[london.food] Useful items Kate L Pugh 19:41 on 26 Nov 2003
What useful condiments/ingredients have joined your repertoire in the
- Re: [london.food] Useful items Natalie Ford 20:01 on 26 Nov 2003
  Ooh. I have not seen those.
- Ben 20:44 on 26 Nov 2003
  That scrummy Swiss Vegetable Boullion. Also habitually keeping balsamic
- Natalie Ford 20:57 on 26 Nov 2003
  - Gluten free vegetable stock cubes from Kallo - I use this to make my
  - Juliet Kemp 11:58 on 27 Nov 2003
    Well, I certainly did :-)
    - too deep to show
- Marna Gilligan 21:14 on 26 Nov 2003
  Nothing in particular, that I can think of right now, at any rate. I buy
  - Kate L Pugh 10:31 on 27 Nov 2003
    Sainsbury's. I think. I'm supermarket-brand-blind. I've seen them
  - Juliet Kemp 13:48 on 27 Nov 2003
    I use the little pots (the ones preserved in vinegar) for basil &
- Bob Walker 22:25 on 26 Nov 2003
  chipotle chile oil from the cool chile co.
- Simon Wistow 10:08 on 27 Nov 2003
  I use mor epine nuts than I used to and I really like those Staright To
- Arthur Bergman 10:40 on 27 Nov 2003
  I must say most helpful for me has Food Ferry been, they always bring
- [london.food] Hummous [Was: Re: Useful items] Kate L Pugh 20:42 on 27 Nov 2003
  "Skin the chickpeas" is possibly the most important feature of that recipe.

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