Iranian cooking...
On Mon, 28 Jun 2010 17:20:07 -0500, Omelet >
wrote:
>In article >,
> brooklyn1 > wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 28 Jun 2010 08:06:58 -0700, Dan Abel > wrote:
>>
>> >In article >,
>> > Goomba > wrote:
>> >
>> >> Omelet wrote:
>> >>
>> >> > And I have duly stored the ones that sounded good. Thanks for them!
>> >> > I have yet to try making hummus, but I eat very few grain dishes at the
>> >> > moment....
>> >>
>> >> When did hummus get grains in to it???
>> >
>> >I wondered about that. Hummus always has tahini in it, which is made
>> >from sesame seeds. And garbonzo beans seem somewhat like grains for
>> >dietary purposes.
>> >
>> >But yeah, it's more of a bean dish than a grain dish.
>>
>> Um, it actually is a bean dish... legumes are not grains. Sesame seed
>> is not a grain either.
>
>Damn. I'd not investigated sesame seeds much. Just used them mostly as a
>condiment.
>
>Thanks to this post, I checked them out by googling their nutritional
>content. They are practically carb free...
>
>Cool!
But sesame seeds are higher in fat than just about any food.
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