Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Roasted Red Pepper Hummus

Ingredients

  • 2 cloves garlic, minced
  • 1 (15 ounce) can garbanzo beans, drained
  • 1/3 cup tahini (Tahini is a paste made from sesame seeds and can be found in many grocery stores)
  • 1/3 cup lemon juice
  • 1/2 cup roasted red peppers
  • 1/4 teaspoon dried basil

Directions

  1. In an electric food processor, combine garlic, garbanzo beans, tahini, and lemon juice. Process until the mixture is smooth. Add roasted peppers and basil; process until the peppers are finely chopped. Season with salt and pepper. Transfer hummus to small bowl, cover and chill until you are ready to serve.

Thursday, September 8, 2011

Guac Dip - Thanks Mary


Depending on how much you want to make depends on what you need. For the batch I made on Friday it took 6-8 avocados, 1 large cottage cheese, and 1 large sour cream. Jalapenos, green chili, salt, pepper, and garlic salt.

Smash your avocados really well or not depending on how you want it.

Pour in all the cottage cheese and sour cream and mix it up really well.

Take some canned jalapenos or fresh that are diced really well and mix in along with a can of diced green chili. I like mine hot when I make it at home and add three fresh jalapenos with the seeds and it is great but it all depends on how hot you like it.

Add salt, pepper and garlic salt to taste.

I can't give you an exact measurement amounts because I am Mexican and I never measure anything. Growing up my mom would never measure a thing while cooking. Our measurements are like this: open your hand pour the salt, you have open palm, medium open palm and closed palm. Those are my Mexican measurements from my family to yours. lol

Hope you all enjoy!!!

Mary