Never had them roasted, but am tempted to look for a recipe now. Mum hates most pulses (baked beans is about as far as she will go) but is open to new experiences and loves anything roasted - so far anyway.

Sorry that your memories of your Dad's cooking make you cry. But you have the memories, even though time has moved both of you on. Smells and their memory will always trigger those times for you - which is a good thing, even if slightly bitter-sweet. And you still have your Dad, even if he is diminished by time. Age takes away the people we love - if I was spiritual I'd suggest it was to prepare us for death. But I'm not, and I mourn the passing of your Dad's cookery for your sake.

Pie - I've never put sesame paste in Hummus (as Dana says, the most common spelling here is Houmous). But then I started with a low fat recie and tweaked it from there, so that might explain the omission. And I'm not a big sesame fan, so I mighta taken it myself :) I mostly make it off the cuff now (nothing up my sleeves).

Griff, you're a love. But WTF is a pumpkin torte? I'm not sure I've eaten pumpkin in my life - although the power of the written word tempts me to find pumpkin juice as they drink it like Coke in Harry Potter books... I fear Rowling lies to us there. I associate torte with Austira - chocolate and hazelnut and cream and... well, you get the idea.

I'll get round to my lovely savoury feast sometime. It might just take the right mood.

Hummus is pretty much my favorite snack food these past few years. Hummus with tahini and a dash of roast peppers on some nice warm pita.

That's a good healthy snack elspode... I haven't made hummus for a long time, I should do that again soon.

eh, we just buy it. Stuff off the shelf is pretty damm good.

In the states, we eat a lot of pumpkin pie, the torte is a take on that. Pumpkin is pretty sweet compared to the other squashes. It's yummy, I'll post a recipe sometime the Steelers are not about to start.

Hummus Or Hommus as it's often spelled here, is one of the most healthy things you can possibly eat. The combination of ingredients provides you with high fibre, Vit C (just to name one), Calcium (from the tahini) and omega 3 from the olive oil. We all know garlic is good for our respiratory system, and of course you get a bit more vit C from the lemon juice, and these are just the obvious benefits.

It really is the food of the gods, which is of course a pun considering it's an ancient greek food.

It is a great snack. You are right Ali.

I'm often right...at least in my own mind. ;)

:D

Now I'm hungry for hummus. Guess I'll be shopping tomorrow for a ready-made or the ingredients. And changing my bookmark from TheCellar to ThePantry.

Yeah actually I was just thinking I might make myself some to have on toast for late breaky. lol

We like to dip toasted pita bread in Trader Joe's roasted garlic hummus. making our own in on the long, long list of things to do, some day.....

Tahini is incredibly expensive in the UK, or at least it was when we left 8 years ago, maybe that's another good reason for leaving it out, SG -that's certainly why we never made it when we were there.

Tahini isnt so expensive now.

Thanks, Dana. I keep forgetting how long we've been away and how fast things change.....

You know, if you have a stick/immersion blender, it only takes about 5 mins to make hummus, and that's including getting stuff out and cleaning up. That's one of the reasons I like it so much. When guests drop in unexpectedly, it's so easy to make up a batch and get it on the table before they even get out of the car.