The Secret of the Hummus

I previously mentioned that "What I Thought" would include recipes. Here's one:

"The Secret of the Hummus" 

Canned garbanzo beans -- or you can cook them from raw.

(Cooking the garbanzos

Into a crock pot add:

As many garbanzos as you'd like to cook,

A medium sized onion, quartered

Several stalks of celery, with leaves, use inner stalks)

Several cloves of garlic

2-3 Bay Leaves

Cook in crock pot until beans are tender, drain beans and remove bay leaves, onion and celery -- it's no great disaster if small bits of celery and onion move on in the recipe, but make sure you get all or most of the bay leaves.
I've also added roasted cumin and coriander seed in the cooking of the garbanzos, those can move on in the recipe. Proceed with the following ingredients:)


Garlic (a lot)

Olive oil (copious amounts)

Cumin (plenty)

Ground coriander (I use a former TJ's sea salt grinder with coriander seeds in it)

Dried Oregano (watch out for the stems on the little leaves)

The juice of at least two lemons...

Sesame tahini

Salt

Infuse olive oil with roasted garlic...  roast garlic cloves on a hot surface. You can use the floor of a clean oven, cookie sheet, or a skillet in an oven at 375 degrees.  When cloves are slightly browned, or even a little charred, remove them, cover with salt and smash into a paste in a bowl.  Use as much garlic as you like.  Cover with olive oil, and let sit while garlic infuses into oil.

Drain garbanzos.

Combine in a large bowl: garbanzos, olive oil (Reserve some garlic infused olive oil), garlic, oregano, cumin, ground coriander, lemon juice and salt.

Let this mixture sit for awhile (could be days in the fridge....)

Blend the marinated garbanzos, and spices in blender or food processor, with sesame tahini (Note: exercise restraint with tahini-- too much will impart a peanut-buttery flavor to the hummus). 

As you are blending, add garlic-infused olive oil, lemon juice, salt and cumin to taste.

(If a kick is desired, white pepper can be added.)

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Self assessment
This recipe was pre-written as a Facebook Note. Insomnia had me awake early but fatigue nevertheless made copying and pasting difficult and stressful.