chick peas show up in all sorts of ways in mid eastern cooking.. whole, lightly pickled (similar to 3 bean salad) coarsely ground, mix with parsley, onion and other vegetables, formed into small balls and fried (falafal)--they are a versital form of protein. Hummas is one of my favorites.. i have a tin of tahini in the cupboard, but i also have a small tin of readymade hummas -- i sometimes dine on hummas and bhabhagunish (don't have any in the fridge now.. so i have no idea how to spell it!) mashed roast eggplant, seasoned with garlic and herbs, basicly.

(and didn't someone just mention (and i thought it gross) that they sometimes substituted peanut butter for tahini (sesame paste)-when making hummas?)


my other obsession