August 01, 2008
Lunches and Hummus
This week I finally went and made my own hummus. I got the recipe from Genie, the Inadvertant Gardener. It has no tahini! That makes it awesome in my book.
I halved it so it would fit in my mini-foodprocesser, but then I added more garlic, because, awesome.
1 tin chickpeas
2 cloves garlic
juice of 1 lemon
5T olive oil
1/2t salt
handful of chopped mint
1) Blend the first 5 ingredients
2) Stir in the mint
3) Enjoy!
Extra bonus, the parts for my mini-foodprocessor are all dishwasherable! This was so easy and tasty that I will definitely make it again. I'm also going to try other bean dip recipes as Beau and I like them both as dips and also as sandwich spreads. Win-win!
Here is a picture of my hummus in my lunch.
I haven't really done any other cooking this week, well I didn't take any photos anyway so lets do an indepth look at one of my lunches. Here is Friday's lunch.
This is a relatively standard lunch for me. It's packed in a 670mL container and took about 16-18min to make. That is actually quite long . Here is the process:
1) Microwave a portion of refrigerated rice with about 2t of water for a couple of min on med
2) meanwhile get fruit and veg out of fridge and wash them.
3) put in sieve to drain/dry
4) get 80g tin tuna, mix with 1Tmayo, 1/2 chopped (clean) spring onion, mix in with (now warmed) rice, taste, add a bit of soy sauce for more saltiness. Leave to cool
5) Chop veg into suitable sizes
6) Put right amount of rice mix into container and move to the side, add some pickled ginger as seperator/flavour enhancer.
7) pack rest of fruit and veg
8) put everything away/in dishwasher and eat leftover rice and veges for breakfast.
Putting the capsicum on top of the rice is a new touch and I like it, it didn't take any extra time, but it looks really effective!
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Hummus without tahini, you say? Eeeenteresting. *yoinks recipe*
(I made my own hummus for the first time last weekend, and the most common opinion was that it was very tahini-ish. Which is probably because I just kept adding tahini as I couldn't taste it.)
Posted by: Cat at August 1, 2008 10:58 AMOh such cute lunches! Sometimes I wish I liked/ate fish. Tuna is so handy and practical.
I've usually made hummus without tahini, but I've got to say I'm lovng the tahini-filled stuff I'm making now.
I pine for cheap fresh fruit. Look at your beautiful strawberries and grapes.
Posted by: Jackie at August 1, 2008 11:30 AMCat and Jackie: This has a *lot* of flavour due to the lemon, garlic and mint, you don't need tahini flavour too. Also, I don't want to buy a big container of tahini right now. What else do you use it in?
Jackie: The fruit isn't that cheap. I've just decided not to stint myself on healthy foods I like. If you are saving money by making more of your own stuff from scratch, spend some of that on delicious ingredients. I also find if I have yummy fruits, I don't have as much desire for candy/chocolate.
If I didn't have fish, I would flavour my rice with japanese rice sprinkles (furikake), you can get vegetarian ones. I would then have seperate protein, maybe an egg or bean dip.
:)
Posted by: giffy at August 1, 2008 10:37 PMI tried making hummus once. the blender s@#t itself, and I never tried again. Also had the issue of buying tahini in bulk only to use a little bit and never use it again (probably because we no longer had a blender).
And heres a link:
refers to an NZ company that is now selling chickpeas that can be raised like sprouts and eaten or used fresh, instead of out of a tin or from dried. suddenly chickpeas sound usable!
Posted by: Dan at August 2, 2008 02:08 PMDan: I'd seen sproutable sprouts in the supermarket before I left NZ. I even saw a little show about how to sprout your own on Maori TV. Just use a big preserving jar and some muslin. It is pretty straight-forward apparently.
Also, chickpeas, beans, pulses can all be cooked from dry over night in the slow cooker. You can make large batches and freeze them. Or so Alison Holst tells me ;) I keen meaning to try it.
I'm listening to the link as I type. Fun.