Here’s a random thought, if you are standing by an elevator, and you or someone in the vicinity has, you know, pressed one of the applicable buttons for transport, and the doors open when the car arrives, WAIT!!!!! There might actually be humans exiting the car!

I don’t know how many times I have almost lip-locked some mind-wandering sportnik who anticipated the spreading of the doors, trying to get on the car before I can get off the car. It really is amazing to me. I can count on this happening at least once a day. I actually had a woman screen me in such a way that she got on while I was attempting to exit. Then she just stared straight ahead. You know, if they don’t look at you, you aren’t really there; my pup tries this trick too.

Well…there is a way that I get some of these car jumpers back. I remain on the car with them and I will move in really close to them, into their critical space, and when they make eye contact with me, I’ll say, “I have on new socks today.”

…crap pisses me off…

I almost forgot what I came here for. The food.

So…

I made hummus for the first time. I had some Ranch Gordo garbanzos that I had recently purchased and I was all like, what to do with these. So I put some in a soup, and the rest, meaning the ones I could wrest from my wife who was popping them like candy, I put into this hummus.

I have seen so many variations and flavors of hummus and the mega-mart some are really pretty good, but somehow I knew, this was going to be far greater an experience because of the RGs. Yes…

So, I roasted a pepper on the stove, roasted a bulb of garlic and the rest came together quite nicely.

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Spicy Roasted Red Pepper Hummus with Roasted Garlic

INGREDIENTS:

1 lb garbanzos cooked (I used fresh. You can use canned - 2 15oz cans)
1 red bell pepper roasted and peeled roughly chopped
1 bulb garlic roasted
1/4 cup fresh lemon juice
1/2 cup water
1 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
1 tbsp sirancha (more or less to your liking)
1/2 cup tahini
2 tsp salt
1 tsp pepper

METHOD:

1. In bowl of food processor, add beans, bell pepper, garlic, and lemon juice. Take them for a spin. While spinning, add oil then add water in a stream until desired consistency. Stop processor and add sirancha, tahini, salt and pepper. Spin until incorporated, about 30 seconds. Stop, taste, adjust seasonings.

2. Get pita chips ready.