What Are You Eating?

Gary Knowels said:
Which part is weird? These are all basic foods, I just adjust the treatment and seasonings to fit a theme. In this case we were using leftover tahini dressing from chicken shawarma wraps plus stuff that needed to be eaten from the garden (beets, zucchini) and pantry staples (farro, chickpeas, lebneh).

Haven eaten a bunch of Levantine foods, all of the flavors and ingredients in this meal appear somewhere in that cuisine so I knew they'd play nice together. Not only that, it's packed with flavor, fiber, and vitamins while not being calorically dense. Seems perfectly normal to me.
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The weird part is that other than the beets and zucchini, I've never heard of those ingredients - take that back; I've heard of chickpeas, but have never seen nor eaten them. Never having been to Levantine, I've never had Leventine food. That I know of anyway. Also, I'm joking with you regarding foods that are outside mainstream 'merican basics. To me, farro means a farro rod that one uses to start a fire, and I don't keep it in the pantry. Likewise, no chickpeas nor lebneh - have no clue what a lebneh is. I like beets well enough, and I'll eat zucchini if someone else fixes it; I just don't see any point or redeeming value in zucchini - cook it and it's a bland, tasteless type of squash of very little substance, but there are so many other tasty ones that also pack substance.
 
Salmo, do yourself a favor and try a Mediterranean restaurant. Take the wife, she’ll like it. Try the chicken shawarma. Most Levantine (Mediterranean) food is not only good but healthy. Local restaurant makes a chicken shawarma pizza that’s delicious!
 
Salmo_g said:
The weird part is that other than the beets and zucchini, I've never heard of those ingredients - take that back; I've heard of chickpeas, but have never seen nor eaten them. Never having been to Levantine, I've never had Leventine food. That I know of anyway. Also, I'm joking with you regarding foods that are outside mainstream 'merican basics. To me, farro means a farro rod that one uses to start a fire, and I don't keep it in the pantry. Likewise, no chickpeas nor lebneh - have no clue what a lebneh is. I like beets well enough, and I'll eat zucchini if someone else fixes it; I just don't see any point or redeeming value in zucchini - cook it and it's a bland, tasteless type of squash of very little substance, but there are so many other tasty ones that also pack substance.
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Labneh, lebneh, labni, lebni are all different spellings of the same thing. It's like Greek yogurt and cream cheese had a baby. I REALLY like Lebanese, Syrian, Palestinian, Israeli and other Levantine regional foods.
 
Salmo_g said:
take that back; I've heard of chickpeas, but have never seen nor eaten them.
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Seriously, you've never seen or had garbanzo beans and you're 70 some years old ?

Jesus weeps

🤣😁🤣
 
Robert Engleheart said:
Salmo, do yourself a favor and try a Mediterranean restaurant. Take the wife, she’ll like it. Try the chicken shawarma. Most Levantine (Mediterranean) food is not only good but healthy. Local restaurant makes a chicken shawarma pizza that’s delicious!
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Dude yer making my fat butt hungry. I got hooked on the stuff working in post war Kuwait.
 
Had some today, very good.
I used to make it from scratch, pretty easily done.
 
Paige said:
Hummus is nothing but bile in a bowl, absolutely disgusting 🤮
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Most grocery store versions are not very good, but I still enjoy them. For truly phenomenal hummus, my favorite is Cafe Munir in North Seattle (Crown Hill). It's a small, family run authentic Lebanese joint. They serve a hummus with crispy fried chickpeas and garlic cloves on top. We usually get that, a dish that is beets and lebneh, and some grilled meat skewers (sish tawook or kufta are my favorites). Very reasonable prices too. Sometimes we make special trips up from Tacoma just to go eat dinner there.
 
Paige said:
Hummus is nothing but bile in a bowl, absolutely disgusting 🤮
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Opinions being similar to posteriors, if you're buying it off the shelf, yeah it can be fairly repulsive. Someone, sometime, must've given you some bad juju.

Normally olive oil, chickpeas, garlic, salt, pepper, and a few other naturally good things emulsified in a blender (preferred method) until smooth tastes better and is healthier for you than that crap we can buy in the stores called cheese dip.

Same goes for guacamole. Make it at home, make it better than you can buy.
 
wanderingrichard said:
Opinions being similar to posteriors, if you're buying it off the shelf, yeah it can be fairly repulsive. Someone, sometime, must've given you some bad juju.

Normally olive oil, chickpeas, garlic, salt, pepper, and a few other naturally good things emulsified in a blender (preferred method) until smooth tastes better and is healthier for you than that crap we can buy in the stores called cheese dip.

Same goes for guacamole. Make it at home, make it better than you can buy.
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Squeeze of lemon…
 
Used to make a black bean hummus type thing for a change up...garlic, cilantro, lime juice and cumin along with the tahini and beans.
Quite good I thought
 
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