Hummus, take two

I got off my lazy ass and posted my pictures of my roasted garlic hummus. I had taken pictures of the first batch of hummus I had ever made but I was a bit embarrassed with it because the paprika I sprinkled went and got mixed with the olive oil and it looked awful. :( But I did post them on my Flickr so they're out there if you wanted to check it out.

This time, I think I'm on my way to perfecting the recipe. This time, I added more lemon -- almost all the juice of one lemon and I used the entire roasted garlic bulb. Also, I added some coriander in addition to the cumin. Surprisingly, the garlic flavor wasn't very pronounced. I think I might need more than one bulb... I know roasting the garlic mellows the flavor but I could hardly taste it. Maybe a few cloves of raw garlic?

Either way, it turned out well this time! It makes a ton of hummus and I ate even less of it this time than last time. But this time I have Big Wheat Thins, my favorite way of eating hummus. I'm still not the biggest fan of olive oil but paprika definitely makes it awesome. I must add more next time.

But I'm definitely on the right track of making a hummus that is tailored to my tastes. And I've definitely perfected making tahini with a mortar and pestle. The trick to it is to add water a little bit at a time until it is the consistency you want it to be. I wish I could get hulled sesame seeds since they really make it bitter but I'm consoling myself with the fact that it's much, much more nutritious.

Maybe the next batch, whenever it may be, whenever the fancy strikes me, I'll have the absolute best hummus that I won't feel like I need to improve. For now, I'll just enjoy what I've made and continue watching Castle. And after this, the scary looking House.

edit x1: Is anyone else loving the Google doodle for Jules Verne? I've been having a lot of fun playing with it and immediately after I first saw it, I thought to myself, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. Surprisingly enough, it really was that! I only thought that simply because it was one of my favorite stories as a kid... Certainly, my most favorite Jules Verne book, though Around the World in Eighty Days is a very close second. But for the longest time after reading Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, I was obsessed with oceans and submarines... Of course SeaQuest didn't hurt that obsession. To this day, I still have the desire to live long enough to see man colonizing the seas and living under water in the oceans...

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GLEE!!!!

Despite the massive amounts of massive amounts of secondhand embarrassment and so much wincing and looking away that I did, I LOVED IT!!! SO MUCH DARREN! I feel like it's Christmas!

The end song especially! My new favorite Warblers song! Oh my god, I can't make myself understood right now because all I want to do is scream! NEED SILLY LOVE SONGS NOW!!!

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Okay, a bit more coherent now. ( GLEE GLEE GLEE (there's nothing spoilery though) )

I don't think I'm making much sense... What is next week's episode about? Do I have anything (i.e. Darren) to look forward to? Because now, I'm seriously watching for him. And after glutting on this episode, I don't know if I can go back to the requisite song and a scene (if we're lucky)... It would be nice to have a Kurt solo sometime soon though... It's been way too long and even though I'm not his biggest fan, even I'm starting to notice the lack of Kurt music... He's essentially NOT singing seeing as it's basically Darren + Beelzebubs in the Warblers numbers.

*sings* I love you...