Snacking while eGulleting... (Part 3)

[liuzhou]

Dutch goat's cheese (Le Chevre) with smoked Gordal olives and sweet chilli peppers

 

 

 

[liuzhou]

I'm stocking up on 'open-hearted nuts', the literal translation of the Chinese name for pistachios. Trying to maximise my hoard before the price doubles. 99% of our pistachios come from the USA.

 

 

 

[liuzhou]

This may not seem much to get excited about to most of you but I can explain.

 

1) Hummus is almost unknown here and difficult to find.

 

2) Because of its unavailability, to satisfy my hummus needs, in the past, I’ve made it from scratch. All the ingredients are available. However, I have to make the tahini, too. It is equally difficult to find. Although I’ve made the tahini and then the hummus many times, it’s a grind (literally). 

 

Hummus Ingredients

 

So for me, it’s fun to just open a tub of this very good hummus imported from Lebanon. I buy the regular type but it also comes in a number of flavours: with za-atar; with red peppers; with red hot chilli.

 

 

 

$3.50 USD / 215g a tub plus delivery $0.55 no matter how many tubs I buy.

 

 

 

Edited April 14 by liuzhou (log)

[Smithy]

1 minute ago, liuzhou said:

This may not seem much to get excited about to most of you but I can explain.

 

1) Hummus is almost unknown here and difficult to find.

 

2) Because of its unavailability, to satisfy my hummus needs, in the past, I’ve made it from scratch. All the ingredients are available. However, I have to make the tahini, too. It is equally difficult to find. Although I’ve made the tahini and then the hummus many times, it’s a grind (literally). 

 

Hummus Ingredients

 

So for me, it’s fun to just open a tub of this very good hummus imported from Lebanon. I buy the regular type but it also comes in a number of flavours: with za-atar; with red peppers; with red hot chilli.

 

 

 

$3.50 USD / 215g a tub plus delivery $0,55 no matter how many I buy.

 

 

 

 

A bargain! I love hummus but would be seriously challenged if I needed to make the tahini first. 🙂

 

[liuzhou]

On 4/14/2025 at 11:44 AM, Smithy said:

this very good hummus imported from Lebanon

 

 

Oooops!

 

'Lebanon' is not the best way to spell 'Jordan' where the hummus really comes from.

معذرة (maadhhera) as they say in Jordan and Lebanon!

 

 

Edited April 26 by liuzhou (log)

[liuzhou]

Today, I picked up Jordanian za'atar hummus.

 

 

 

[liuzhou]

Things are not what they appear to be. 

 

 

This is called 斑马肉 (bān mǎ ròu) on the packaging. This literally means 'striped horse meat' non-literally, 'zebra meat', hence the image of said well-known equines, Equus quagga.

 

Except, it isn't zebra meat. Underneath the image, it says 素食 (sù shí), which means 'vegetarian'. It is vegetarian zebra meat, not the meat of zebras, although, of course, they are vegetarian. incidentally a homophone of 素食 is 俗世 which means ‘the vulgar world' in Chinese Buddhism. This is no coincidence, I'm sure.

Of course it's ultra-processed crap like all these fake atrocities. Full of unpronounceable additives and preservatives, the only thing like zebra is that it is striped. An approximation of a meaty texture misses the mark. completely, but it is coated in a nice spicy Sichuan flavoured sauce. If chemically enhanced cardboard prepared Sichuan style is your thing, then I highly recommend it you see a shrink.

 

 

NOTE: I didn't buy this; it came as a freebie with a six-pack of beer I had delivered. I'd need a lot more than six cans before I'd eat it. 

 

 

Edited May 19 by liuzhou (log)

[liuzhou]

Today, Muhammara and Pita Bread

 

 

[Kerry Beal]

On 6/28/2025 at 9:52 AM, liuzhou said:

Today, Muhammara and Pita Bread

 

 

Did you make the Muhammara?

[liuzhou]

26 minutes ago, Kerry Beal said:

Did you make the Muhammara?

 

No.

 

I ordered some hummus online and they incompetently accidentally sent this instead and I was too lazy to send it back. It actually wasn't very good. Watery and insipid. Little flavour, at all. I'm sure I could have made better. In fact, I have done.