International Hummus Day-May 13

[Jacque67 7,328]

https://www.daysoftheyear.com/days/international-hummus-day/

 

just found out.

happy hummus day. Love this stuff!!!

[OriZ 3,157]

I do too but I find it very difficult to come across any decent hummus and/or falafel in the US...or at least over here. I'm sure there might be some decent places in areas of the country that have a larger middle eastern community.

[Dashinka 24,579]

3 minutes ago, OriZ said:

I do too but I find it very difficult to come across any decent hummus and/or falafel in the US...or at least over here. I'm sure there might be some decent places in areas of the country that have a larger middle eastern community.

I do love hummus!  Unfortunately,I have never had the chance to experience it in the Middle East, I imagine that it is like trying to find good Chinese or Korean food here as opposed to in person in China or Korea.  My friends from Korea often comment of the different taste of Korean food here, they believe it is the ingredients.

[OriZ 3,157]

1 hour ago, Bill & Katya said:

I do love hummus!  Unfortunately,I have never had the chance to experience it in the Middle East, I imagine that it is like trying to find good Chinese or Korean food here as opposed to in person in China or Korea.  My friends from Korea often comment of the different taste of Korean food here, they believe it is the ingredients.

There is alot of filler in hummus in the US and yes some other ingredients are different as well. Usually(this is especially true with store bought ones) they use alot of oil in it because it's cheaper. We prefer to make ours at home.

Edited May 13, 2017 by OriZ

[Ban Hammer 13,395]

i thought it said humans day...........

[X Factor 1,112]

We recently started to make hummus

[Jacque67 7,328]

Don't bring falafel into the conversation....O'Reilly....

[Cyberfx1024 7,980]

11 hours ago, OriZ said:

I do too but I find it very difficult to come across any decent hummus and/or falafel in the US...or at least over here. I'm sure there might be some decent places in areas of the country that have a larger middle eastern community.

I love hummus, falafel, and schwarmas. Luckily where I live at it has the largest population of Armenians outside of Armenia, and a large amount of them grew up in the middle east. So I can take my pick of good places to get some hummus or falafel. I actually found this hole in the wall place in Glendale that sells schwarma wraps, tacos, and pizza that is to die for and it's authentic because the owners are from Aleppo but their Armenian.

Edited May 13, 2017 by cyberfx1024

[Cyberfx1024 7,980]

11 hours ago, Bill & Katya said:

I do love hummus!  Unfortunately,I have never had the chance to experience it in the Middle East, I imagine that it is like trying to find good Chinese or Korean food here as opposed to in person in China or Korea.  My friends from Korea often comment of the different taste of Korean food here, they believe it is the ingredients.

That is the case as well. 

[Cyberfx1024 7,980]

10 hours ago, OriZ said:

There is alot of filler in hummus in the US and yes some other ingredients are different as well. Usually(this is especially true with store bought ones) they use alot of oil in it because it's cheaper. We prefer to make ours at home.

I agree I don't like a lot of the oil in store bought hummus.

[Jacque67 7,328]

A great place if you're in NY is Hummus Place on the UWS. Really delish.

Hummus aside, I am pretty excited Katz's Deli is offering some of its menu by mail.A real slice of the Depression in NYC.

[OriZ 3,157]

8 hours ago, X Factor said:

We recently started to make hummus

Key to good hummus is good tahini(which is also hard to come by anything decent unless you make it at home).

 

7 hours ago, Jacque67 said:

Don't bring falafel into the conversation....O'Reilly....

Hey what's wrong with falafel?

 

4 hours ago, cyberfx1024 said:

I love hummus, falafel, and schwarmas. Luckily where I live at it has the largest population of Armenians outside of Armenia, and a large amount of them grew up in the middle east. So I can take my pick of good places to get some hummus or falafel. I actually found this hole in the wall place in Glendale that sells schwarma wraps, tacos, and pizza that is to die for and it's authentic because the owners are from Aleppo but their Armenian.

I'm not into schwarma myself. When my wife and I lived in Israel there was a hummus place and a falafel place across the street. She liked the hummus better and me I'm more a falafel person myself so we would go get my falafel, then cross the street and sit at the hummus place, I would have my falafel with a little bit of hummus and some fries(yes fries) and she would just do the hummus and fries.

[Jacque67 7,328]

2 minutes ago, OriZ said:

Key to good hummus is good tahini(which is also hard to come by anything decent unless you make it at home).

 

Hey what's wrong with falafel?

 

I'm not into schwarma myself. When my wife and I lived in Israel there was a hummus place and a falafel place across the street. She liked the hummus better and me I'm more a falafel person myself so we would go get my falafel, then cross the street and sit at the hummus place, I would have my falafel with a little bit of hummus and some fries(yes fries) and she would just do the hummus and fries.

Ah I love falafel.

just google Bill O'Reilly, falafel, loofah...say no more

[OriZ 3,157]

LOL I just looked. Somebody explain what falafel is to the man. I'd hate to think what he'd call tahini 

[Cyberfx1024 7,980]

1 hour ago, OriZ said:

Key to good hummus is good tahini(which is also hard to come by anything decent unless you make it at home).

 

Hey what's wrong with falafel?

 

I'm not into schwarma myself. When my wife and I lived in Israel there was a hummus place and a falafel place across the street. She liked the hummus better and me I'm more a falafel person myself so we would go get my falafel, then cross the street and sit at the hummus place, I would have my falafel with a little bit of hummus and some fries(yes fries) and she would just do the hummus and fries.

I love a good Schwarma. When I lived in Doha, I live on the car north side of Doha in place called Umm Salal Muhammad. The only place that was even remotely close to walk and eat was a schwarma place, and by God did eat there.

 

I actually had a falafel and hummus last week. It was really good and I ate it all.