I made hummus!

First step, get kids out of the house and take dog for a walk so he is tired and not interested in snooping around the kitchen.

Step two. Get recipe online.

Step three. Open bottle of Woop Woop Shiraz. Pour a glass and drink some. Yum. This is going to be good hummus.

Four. Assemble ingredients. (Chickpeas, tahini, lemon, garlic, salt, olive oil.) Take photo of assembled ingredients in hopes of later posting photos on this blog. More on this later.

Five. Find blender and put on countertop next to computer with online recipe. Feel pretty hip because you are using your VAIO instead of a Betty Crocker cookbook with oil-stained pages. Take photo of computer and blender, not realizing that when you try to upload photos to blog you will feel quite UNhip. But that's later. Have another sip of wine. Yeah, this is going to be really good hummus.

Six. Blend one clove of garlic in blender. Look at recipe which turns out to be confusing as to whether one or two cloves of garlic are needed. Add another clove just because you think they really DID mean to list "one clove of garlic" twice in the ingredient list. Hm.

Seven. More wine. Then add chickpeas with none of the juice (save it in a cup and photograph it because it's gross), the tahini, salt, lemon juice and blend at random settings on the blender. It's ALL good. Now realize you need that gross bean juice or at least some of it (yeah the recipe vaguely refers to that) and add to the blended chunks of future hummus. Blend again (on "ice chopping" just for fun.)

Step eight. Taste. Wow. Have some wine and then taste again. Get out the crackers. Take some more photos. Hahaha. The hummus is really garlicky (note to self, ONE clove next time) and salty (note to self, cut salt down to a half teaspoon) and a little lemony but that is okay. Add a little olive oil and blend again. Yummy. Have some more sips of wine, crackers, and hummus. MMMM. Put hummus in cut glass serving dish, top with a few unblended garbanzos and a little more olive oil. Oh yeah, this is going to be GREAT hummus.

Nine. Upload photos to computer then try to figure out where the heck that icon is that says "upload images"...fail to find it. Plan to call someone sometime to figure that out and offer to pay them with hummus and WOOP WOOP.

Ten. Eat more and blog about the whole experience. Someday there will be photos to boot!