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Good stuff. I like chick peas on my salads. Nice and filling and healthy too. And you?
I keep hearing how the trend is catching on, but the funny thing is: most of us, who have developed palettes at all have been eating chick peas for years and years. I had hummus, for the first time, maybe 30 years ago and chick peas, as a kid. I don't know why they suddenly appear to be something new. With that I will add, healthy, yes, very, yummy, to me: not at all. I can eat it but I would never buy it or go out of my way to have it.
I keep hearing how the trend is catching on, but the funny thing is: most of us, who have developed palettes at all have been eating chick peas for years and years. I had hummus, for the first time, maybe 30 years ago and chick peas, as a kid. I don't know why they suddenly appear to be something new. With that I will add, healthy, yes, very, yummy, to me: not at all. I can eat it but I would never buy it or go out of my way to have it.
How were the chick peas prepared when you ate them as a kid...... always looking for new/old ways to serve them.
Not about hummus, but about chick peas....... A couple of years ago in a small restaurant in South Florida I had a plate of spanish rice with chick peas (aka garbanzos). I don't know if the recipe was the same as on this link but it was Awesome (with a capital A).
Hmm... tahini is made from sesame seeds, hummus contains chickpeas and tahini, so....
Okay, we're both right. Here's what I was thinking of, and what I learned from Middle Eastern friends (from Wikipedia): Hummus is an Arabic word (حمّص ḥummuṣ) meaning "chickpeas," and the complete name of the prepared spread in Arabic is حمّص بطحينة ḥummuṣ bi ṭaḥīna, which means "chickpeas with tahini".
The usage has changed in the USA. My version was somewhere between Arabic and English.
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Here's what I was thinking of, and what I learned from Middle Eastern friends (from Wikipedia): Hummus is an 
