Homemade Habanero Hummous
- One can chickpeas (garbanzo beans)
- About one quarter of a jar of tahini. Officially one to two gloms of tahini. You choose how much oil.
- A glom of habenero sauce - we used the one we got at the Marylebone London farmers market from Edible Ornamentals. It was called Inferno. She’s there every other sunday, if you’re in the neighborhood.
- Lemon juice, and salt to taste.
We don’t have a food processor, so the best thing I did was lay out the beans on a cutting board and mashed them with a fork first, then transferring them to a bowl to mix with the rest of the ingredients.
For the meal, we used some ingredients left in the fridge. Sauteed the ground beef, spinach, and yellow pepper, with assorted spices. Fresh tomatoes, and everything all together in a hot pita pocket. Voilá le “Meeta Pocket”. Our proximity to the Edgware road ‘hood is definitely influencing our cooking at home. That and me buying a way too big bag of bulk couscous at whole paycheck.
Tomorrow we’re going to try chicken guy’s Stuffed Butternut Squash recipe.
Anyone want to check the format of this for me in hRecipe microformat? Or have other cooking suggestions? Let me know in the comments.
Last night on the recommendation of Michael Straus I saw King Corn at the Red Vic Movie House in the Haight. The movie tells the story of two young filmmakers from Boston that move to Iowa to where their great grandparents were from - and grow an acre of corn. Well the movie’s not just watching corn grow, but far more interesting because they entertainingly expose the industrialized system of food production that has been taking over the midwest of our country for the last 30 years and ruining our nation’s diets.
“We’re not growing quality - we’re growing crap!” - a corn farmer.
Following the trail of high fructose corn syrup, Ian and Curt hop attempt to make a home-cooked batch of the sweetener in their kitchen. But their investigation of America’s most ubiquitous ingredient turns serious when they follow soda to its consumption in Brooklyn. Here, Type A diabetes is ravaging the community, and America’s addiction to corny sweets is to blame.
“If there had been reason to suspect that over-production of sorghum or rice lay behind our national health crisis, I don’t think I would have been as excited about making this film or as somehow conflicted about bringing it out into America. But the thought that corn could be implicated—this hit where it hurts. ” - Aaron Wolf, Director
The breadth of the problem is now clear: the American food system is built on the abundance of corn, an abundance perpetuated by a subsidy system that pays farmers to maximize production.
In a nursing home in the Indiana suburbs, Ian and Curt come face-to-face with Earl Butz, the Nixon-era Agriculture Secretary who invented subsidies. The elderly Butz champions the modern food system as an “Age of plenty” Ian and Curt’s great-grandfathers only dreamed of.
After the movie was over there was a short speech by the California Food and Justice Coalition about the Dorgan and Grassley amendment, which is currently our best chance at making a change in this system. Call your senator right now.
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