Review: Now I'm hungry so I'll have to bake some Pita to go with my hummus!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 16, 2012
As I sit here eating hummus for breakfast (AGAIN!) I had to laugh at Katherine Canning's statement early in the text ofMORE THAN HUMMUS CLASSIC HUMMUS RECIPES AND SO MUCH MOREthat one batch would feed 8 - or 4 in her household!  I get just about three meals out of a batch and there is just me to eat it most of the time.Believe it or not, there was a time that I did not like hummus.  My daughter would buy a tiny, kind of expensive little container of it every time a friend came to visit from the UK, but frankly I just didn't like the look of it.  Then, when my granddaughter and I were homeschooling we studied the Silk Road and the Middle East.  As part of our investigations we studied the food of the Middle East (if you don't understand something about the food, you won't understand the culture either) and so of course we researched and made a Middle Eastern dinner - hummus, tabbouleh, Felafel balls, Labane, olives, a little salad and of course homemade Pita Bread. We invited relatives and threw a party. Dinner was a huge success and hummus has made at least a weekly appearance in my house ever since. There are only a very few things that I buy canned other than anchovies:  tomatoes and chickpeas.  Oh yes, I do cook my own chickpeas from scratch in big batches and keep some in the freezer, but sometimes I am lazy or I want hummus NOW, not when the beans thaw!MORE THAN HUMMUS CLASSIC HUMMUS RECIPES AND SO MUCH MOREcontains everything you need to know about hummus.  Do not laugh or turn up your nose when you get to the recipe for Peanut Butter Hummus.  I buy tahini and peanut butter at the co-op, where it comes in huge buckets.  Since peanut butter and tahini look rather a bit alike, I try to remember to write some indicator of what they are on the deli containers I bring them home in, but now and then I forget. I have been known to accidentally grab the peanut butter instead of the tahini and not realize it until too late.  Nobody has ever known but me.Canning has done a very nice job putting this ebook together.  She even got the Table of Contents to show up on the Menu link - rare in Kindle cookbooks. Kudos for a job well done!Five stars.  Highly recommended!