I love hummus. I can make a meal on hummus and pita (and like tonight with the Mrs. at a meeting, the kids are lucky to get this much) and hummus is a simple dish that the kids can help with. Here’s a recipe for fresh hummus. You can delete the roasted red peppers if you like.
- 1 can of chick peas/garbanzo beans (15 oz)
- 1/3 cup tahini (this is essentially sesame butter, get it at a middle east store)
- 1/4 cup lemon juice
- 2 tablespoon olive oil
- 1-2 garlic cloves, crushed (depending on taste)
- 1/2 cup -3/4 cup roasted red peppers (depending on taste)
- Kosher salt to taste
In a food processor, combine everything but the peppers until you get a nice creamy texture. Add a bit more oil if things seem too dry. Then add the peppers (diced) and process just a bit more so that little bits of the peppers can be seen. (Putting this in the refrigerator overnight brings out the flavor.) You can garnish this with some paprika and parsley. Get the kids some milk and grab a beer. This is good. Really good.
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I can't help but feel a little offended. I love to cook, and I've been doing batch cooking/freezer meals for my wife and kids to save money, eat healthy, flavor-filled, convenient meals, and yet fathers are still relegated to second-class cook status (save for cutting the Thanksgiving turkey). Why does being a non-cook automatically appear as a genuine masculine trait?
Don't be offended, just be a dad and respond with your recipes if you so wish.Humor entails being able to laugh at oneself. So please don't be offended at this comment, but I don't put much "stock" into a comment about being offended.
Sounds easy enough. But I am wondering what I would eat for supper.
I love to cook.
And I love these posts.
And, I know that most dads don’t cook.
Well, except for the grill.
Nick, we’re relegated to second- (and third-) class cooks cuz most of ARE second-class cooks!
You’re the exception.
There are certain things that only I am allowed to make, by my wife’s choice. For example, the Saturday morning pancakes or waffles. When she’s the one who makes them (like the ones we had for dinner this evening – we had b’fast for dinner) she comments about how much better mine are.
All I can say is that all you gotta do is follow a recipe. Most everything I can do fine on if I have a good, concise recipe to follow. No matter what I do, though, I can’t get a good white sauce.
So, by culinary standards, I am a second class cook – because I have to have a recipe! Still, my mom and my wife both comment about how great it is that I am willing to try and cook anything. I don’t remember my dad ever cooking anything at all. One or two times he helped with baking with my mom chaperoning him in the kitchen.
A Catholic mom here….this is a great recipe. I had only made hummus once before and I thought it was ok and the kids did not like it. I so wanted them to like it because it sounded like a good nutritious snack option for them. Then I saw this recipe with roasted red peppers and I thought that sounded really good, still thinking that my kids will probably not like it…wrong! I was presently surprised when they said they really liked it and in the words of my six year old son "Mom, this is the best dip you've ever made!" Thanks for the recipe!