Hope your dining experience was a good one,when i read the last post it was 1 minute before....dinnertime,7.29 PM!

Anyway,for the cookers amongst us,here's another hummus receipe.

In the Arab world ,every family has their own receipe,hummus means chickpea in Arabic,so that the preperared dish does not have such a standardized reputation as it does in this country.
For example,in Syria some families make hummus with olive oil,cummin and all-spice instead of with lemon juice and tahini.

Hummus bi'l tahina(Arab levant);
No matter how you make hummus,it is important ,if you cook them from dried peas,is to remove the thin skins of the chickpeas.

4 cans or 3 cups dried peas.
3/4 cup olive oil
8 garlic cloves,peeled mortar mashed
1/2 cup fresh lemonjuice
ground black pepper
1/2 cup pine nuts
1/2 cup mintleaveschopped1/2 teaspoon sumac

Put on a platter,not a bowl with warm pita bread or Arab flatbread.
Garnishes also used:whole cooked chickpeas,pommegranat seeds,cayenne pepper,black olives,paprika or ground cummin.
Enjoy.