Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Hummus endeavor
I've decided I love hummus. It has to be especially flavorable hummus, but I love it. I don't remember the brand from Costco that is so delicious, but I walked by it yesterday and didn't buy it for $5.99 because I had a recipe for "Lick the Bowl Clean Hummus" from my Taste of Home magazine and was planning on trying it out. I thought, "I'd better try to save the money and make my own." So today I went to Winco for my big shopping trip and looked for one of the ingredients that is evidently very important for good hummus. Tahini. Ever heard of it? I had no idea it existed, but evidently it is sesame seed paste. I guess Winco usually has it, but they were out today. I figured that out after I looked all over the store by myself and then asked someone and we discovered it was missing. So I decided to go to Safeway before I went home because I really wanted to make that hummus. Instead of learning my lesson and asking before I started looking, I combed the store and couldn't find it. By the way, if you need to find tahini, both Winco and Safeway have it stocked with the peanut butter. So a lady helped me find it and then came the extra-discouraging part. It was $6.99! Maybe you don't think that's a bid deal, but I was trying to save a few bucks. I had to buy the garbanzo beans and a few other ingredients and now I'm out much more than the yummy no-effort Costco stuff would have cost me. I know the tahini will last for several batches of the homemade hummus, though, so I hope it ends up being cost-effective! It's what I get for trying to save a buck. BTW - I'll let you know how the hummus turns out. I was way too tired to actually make it after all my shopping today.
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Oh man! Isn't that they way it always seems to turn out?! Who knew sesame seed paste was so expensive? I can't wait to hear if it was worth all the trouble! Homemade almost always tastes better than store bought!
ReplyDeleteI've gone through that same frustrating process before! Who ever heard of tahini, and why do you have to have it for hummus? Eventually I started making my own recipe of bean dip that is really similar to hummus--but does not have tahini, because it is such a pain to find and expensive. Most of the other ingredients (beans, olive oil, garlic, herbs) are cheap, but that tahini is special stuff :)
ReplyDeleteOh man this made me laugh-not at you but with you! :) AJ and I always talk about making our own hummus but we haven't yet. I like the hummus from Amadeus. You can actually buy it at Roth's! Good luck :)
ReplyDeleteI have made it a few times and I did find an on-line recipe without tahini and it turned out great as I put lots of garlic (YUM!)and other flavors, but I agree on the price part - not sure - so when it is on sale at Winco, I buy it, if not, we make it.
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