On Thu, 09 Sep 2004 19:11:12 GMT, raymond > wrote:
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> On 9 Sep 2004 06:03:07 -0500, "Bob" >
> wrote:
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>>kilikini wrote:
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>>>> Turbo Hummus
>>>> Recipe courtesy Alton Brown
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>>> Peanut butter? I like that idea! The second recipe you posted seems more
>>> the norm, but I'd try this one. Yummy.
>>
>>Lots of hummus recipes substitute peanut butter for the tahini; AB isn't
>>original in that respect at all. The rule of thumb in the USA is that
>>pragmatists use peanut butter and purists use tahini.
>>
> I seldom made hummus because tahini to me always tastes bitter and a
> peanut allergy forbids that substitution. So I went to the farmer's
> market once and a fellow there was making butters from all sorts of
> nuts and I had him make me some walnut butter and some pistacio
> butter. The walnut butter makes a great hummus. Rich tasting and not
> bitter at all.
>

Pine-nut paste is *really* good in hummus too.

AC