Hummus is so Yummus

Yummus really is a word. I am not kidding. I was slightly concerned that you would not be able to sleep at night without knowing for sure, so I went ahead and Googled it for you. Turns out that yummus is in the Urban Dictionary, and means "To describe a lovely taste or enjoyable food." Obviously. That is why it is the most perfect word to describe hummus.

I love hummus. I love it on chips. I love it on celery and carrots. I love it on sandwiches and wraps.

I was buying a lovely organic hummus from the specialty-cheese-island at my local grocery, but once it was gone it appeared that the specialty-cheese-island-reorder-guy either forgot about it or had been promoted to the pyramid-of-soup-display-guy. Anywho, I found hummus in the produce section with the overpriced, over processed salad dressings. It was eh, okay. The time had come to make my own hummus.

There are a ka-billion hummus recipes and variations. I did a little Googling and came up with this Spinach Hummus Recipe on about.com.

I doubled the recipe and added some cayenne pepper. I found that I added too much garlic (which is surprising, since I love garlic) and not enough cayenne. The lesson here is: Add the extra ingredients sparingly..you can add more later, but you can't take it away once it is blended. I also disregarded the direction to put this in, blend. Put that in. Blend. I just threw it all in the processor and let 'er rip.



You will need to add water as you go, and stir the pot a bit since the hummus is quite thick. I made a double batch, which turned out to be quite a bit of hummus. Next time I will probably make a single batch and experiment with different ingredients such as sun-dried tomatoes and chives.



So here's my finished product - it has the green tint because of the spinach, and any ingredient with natural pigment will usually color the hummus, as chick peas are pretty bland aesthetically. Make sure you stir it up a bit before transferring the hummus to another container. You want to continue mixing until you no longer have any whole or half-peas left.

Keep the hummus in the fridge - and close at hand for emergency dipping. You can also check out some of my other FranticFoodieTutorials - Expresso Martinis, Sushi, Guacamole, and Tiramisu.