Jalapeno hummus that'll kick you in the pants. Pair it with some toasted pitas or tortillas and it's a healthier alternative to chips and dip. Although chips and dip will always be #1 in my heart.
Raise your hand if you hate it when a grocery store (or any other store for that matter) introduces you to something, gets you hooked, carries it for a few months and then snatches it away.
My hand is raised. Really high. I think I may have pulled an armpit in fact.
I can't even begin to tell you how many times I've stood in a clothing store himming and hawing over whether or not to buy a pair of jeans only to find out months after buying them that I can't live without them. That they are my favourite article of clothing in the whole wide world.
The worst part is ... we never seem to know when something is going to be a "favourite" of ours. It's a gradual thing, a realization that comes on slowly. I usually come to the realization once I notice I've been wearing said article of clothing for 3 months straight and only reluctantly wash it in the middle of the night so I know it'll be ready for wear the next morning.
I've had certain jeans that I routinely thought if I didn't own them I would have to go around in my underpants because there was nothing else I could fathom putting on.
The worst part about the best pair of jeans? They always die. The worst part about them dying? They always die after you can't buy them anymore. Even worse than that, is when you go back to the store to buy another pair a year or so later and you jump for joy because the store appears to carry the jeans, but when you try them on ... nope. They're not the same. For no apparent reason, other than attempting to ruin your life, the manufacturer has changed something about the jeans. Same colour, same label, same name ... different jeans. Stupid jeans. Ugly jeans impersonating your perfect jeans.
It's like when Great Lash mascara changed their packaging a little but said they didn't change the formula, when obviously they did because you never see Great Lash mascara on the "best buy" list of mascara's anymore. Yes. It's just like that. Only different because mascara can't make your bum look good. Usually.
A year or two ago I got hooked on Jalapeno Hummus. I first tried it during one of those trips around Costco when you go in for a massive package of boneless, skinless chicken breasts and leave with enough stuff to start your own Costco.
I brought the Jalapeno Hummus home. I was intrigued. When I tried it, my taste buds danced and sang and lit up like a rainbow. They do that all the time when I really like something. Gradually other grocery stores started carrying Jalapeno Hummus. Different brands and different makes ... EVERYONE wanted in on the booming Jalapeno Hummus market. Apparently I wan't the only one who liked this stuff. I bought it every week for about a year.
And then one week my grocery store didn't have it. I shrugged it off. They were probably just sold out of it.
And they were. I was right on that account. What I wasn't right about was thinking they'd carry it again. For a couple of months I went from store to store, frantically looking for an appearance of my Jalapeno Hummus. It was gone. Vanished. I couldn't find it anywhere.
For some reason my Jalapeno Hummus appeared to have gone the way of the Grape flavoured potato chip. One moment it was on the shelves ... and then it was cruelly snatched away.
On the off chance the very same thing has happened to you, I would like to introduce you to my solution.
Homemade Jalapeno Hummus
You'll need pickled jalapenos and a container of regular hummus. (or make your own hummus)
Drop a blob or two of hummus into a bowl.
Grab yourself a few slices of pickled jalapeno.
Mince your slices of jalapeno. The amount you need depends on the amount of hummus you're making. Plus, it depends on how hot you want your hummus to be. Some like it hot. I'd be some.
Dump your minced jalapeno into your hummus. Add it gradually so you can taste test as you go along.
Also dump in a tablespoon or so of the juice from the jar of pickled jalapeno peppers.
This is an advanced technique, for this obviously advanced recipe that involves both chopping and stirring. Actually sometimes chopping is hard. Like in the case of a mango.
Jalapeno Hummus with a KICK.
Ingredients
- 1 cup hummus
- 1 tablespoon pickled jalapeno
Instructions
- Finely chop 2 tablespoons of pickled jalapenos.
- Stir jalapenos into premade hummus.
- Add 1 tablespoon of liquid from the jar or can of the pickled jalapeno peppers.
- Stir and taste. If you'd like more heat, add another tablespoon of jalapeno.
Nutrition
Mix it all up and top it with a few bits of minced jalapeno peppers.
Just to be fancy. 'Cause this is obviously a fancy recipe.
Serve with warmed pitas. Or ... if you want to stay with the "fancy" theme, toast the pitas a little in the oven.
Ironically, this homemade Jalapeno Hummus is even better than the stuff I used to buy.
I can't say the same thing about the homemade J Brand jeans I tried to make.
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yes it is funny how these different foods that we get hooked on disappear but some products just live on and on and on....sandwich spread anyone?
Marilyn - HAHAHAH. Sandwich Spread. Oh dear. ~ karen
I miss diet tropical fruit punch and Airborne's squishy cough drops...I would never miss humus..
So true about the jeans! I had a favorite pair that I pretty much wore 6 days a week (the 7th day was for rest - actually, laundry).
Unfortunately, they're falling apart and fraying, especially in the back pocket, where a hole is starting to split and my underbum is peeking through.
Perhaps a tutorial on mending frayed jeans? I would hate to throw these out!
Java Ice! Nestle's Java Ice! It's a coffee flavored chocolate syrup. There directions said to blend with ice, but I hate cleaning the blender so I don't blend anything. My directions, made up in my own little mind: Locate a clean glass, wash one or a sink full so you have a clean place to place your clean glass in order to complete this complicated task. Find a clean straw, once again you might have to wash a whole sink full of straws. Once you have a clean straw, plunk it down in your clean glass. Pour cold clean milk in your clean glass. Open your favorite milk flavoring syrup. Turn it upside down over your clean glass of clean milk with the clean straw plunked down in it. Aim. This is the rare time I will tell women to AIM! Squeeze the syrup, until you think you have enough in your clean glass of clean milk! Set the syrup aside. Grasp the clean straw and swirl it round and round in a stirring motion until you seem to have the syrup well incorporated into the milk. Now comes the fun part!! Lift the glass and drink. Now tell me that isn't the best glass of coffee milk you've tasted!
Oh wait, I forgot the very 1st step! Go to your local grocery store and try to locate this wonderful Java Ice flavoring syrup. No? Go to your next grocery store. No? Scour all of local groceries. No? Go to your nearest WalMart or whatever discount store you have in your little neck of the woods. Give up shopping and go home to call all the rest of the stores. Finally give up calling after you've been on the phone for an interminable amount of time. Go to your computer and search "Java Ice". Then you think "I should include the brand name "Nestle"" This where you find out that you have everything all wrong. It's "Nescafe Ice Java". Finally! There it is. Right there on your screen. You can almost taste it. Don't lick the screen, trust me, you will be disappointed. Oh look at that! It's been discontinued in the US and is now available only in Canada! (I'm in Texas, halfway across the world from Canada..at least halfway across the Americas) Wondering should I pay at least double the amount that I'd pay in my local stores? PLUS shipping?? Nah, I don't think so!
How will I ever drink milk again?!?!
I can totally relate about the jeans! I found my old favorite at Buffalo and sadly cannot find the same pair again. :( I did find a new favorite replacement pair of jeans from Levi's but I'm now terrified about wearing them out (because they're just THAT amazing!).
P.S. Jalapino hummus is definitely on the to-make list for this weekend :)
Knorr autumn vegetable soup. Where have you gone? You are the only soup my kids like to eat. I've tried to fake them out with home-made stuff, but they never fall for it. I think Knorr got bought out by Lipton or something, and the soup has vanished.
This morning in the shower I was remembering when Pantene used to smell kinda powdery. Remember that? It was a long time ago (probably mid-'80s) but I still miss it.
Gap- Long 'n' Lean jeans. You may say Long 'n' Lean, but you're not the same and I can't patch up my old pair any more.
Also Gap, you're not fooling me - I know I'm not a size 4! Stop the false flattery. I'm a regular-sized woman who wears an 8 or 10 not a ballerina who survives by photosynthesis.
I wish that I could pull the gwenever off. . . no really, I wish I could pull it off. Unfortunately I have man calves so they always get stuck on my massive lower legs :(
SHOES! I have the hardest time finding heels that will stay on my feet because apparently, I have the narrowest heels in the entire universe and can only wear Mary Jane type heels. These were really popular...LAST YEAR when I found my favorite pair of pretty (might I even say a bit sexy) black Mary Jane heels that I could even wear to work. Fast forward a year, need new heels, all I can find is ugly, old grandma looking Mary Jane shoes with big yucky clunky heels. All those pretty shoes that everyone gets to wear? Not me, I walk right out of them. So Karen, can you show me how to add my own pretty strap that won't come off and will match any pretty shoe I might buy? This is my yearly struggle - poor me.
Have you tried those sticky heel huggers you can put on the inside of the heel? Those help me stay inside my shoes. I don't have a brand name to give you but some of them are jelly or some of them have a suede-like texture.
Shsauna,
I have narrow heels, too. Have you tried wearing slingbacks? They are my go-to heel style and probably the easiest to have adjusted if need be by a cobbler. Hope this helps.
Sorry about the misspelling of your name, Shauna.
I'm really tired. I just realized I'm replying to a post from over a year ago. (I'm trying to read all the past stuff I've missed.) That not being able to find a favorite bra response got me all riled up.
YEARS ago I was at some chain restaurant that had a raspberry peach crumble that was insane. I'm not a huge fan of peaches. I don't dislike them, they're just not my go to fruit. I loved that crumble and made excuses to get it at least once a week for about 3 months. Then the fruit pie/crumble season ended and I have not seen it since. This year (probably 10 years after the love affair with the crumble) I'm going to try my hand at making it myself. I will share the recipe too so others are not without this crumbly goodness.
Oh, man. I love jalepeno hummus to the point that I have trouble fitting INTO jeans because I can't stop eating it. Alas; I stopped buying it last year.
But the denim repair is something I can help out with -- check out Denim Therapy (http://denimtherapy.com/). It's hard to believe they can fix the holes and tears that they do. You mail 'em in, and they mail 'em back looking like you didn't rip your pants from eating too much jalepeno hummus.
Every time my fiance decides he can't live without a particular granola-type bar, they discontinue it. He can't have chocolate and practically ALL granola bars have chocolate. Plus, they must be peanut or peanut butter flavored. First it was Skippy bars, now the Planters version is slowly disappearing, one store at a time. I'm going to have to start making them myself.
Tutorial request! Peanut butter bars!
http://www.planters.com/varieties/nutrition-information.aspx?Site=1&Product=4300002729
I find the perfect bra and I'd buy them 4 at a time when they went on sale. Needless to say they all crap out at the same time. Years I've been wearing the same style and poof! Their gone! You try having rather large breasts (I'm not bragging) and no longer being able to buy your favorite style of bra. Just like jeans it's a nightmare trying to find the perfect fit!
I feel your pain, Shari. If you have large breasts (not bragging here either) it's both difficult and important to find the right bra.
I've had so many that I loved never to be able to find them again. I also have 2 drawers full of ones that aren't quite right, but that I can't get rid of because I have a terrible fear of not being able to find anyhting in my size when my current wearable ones crap out. : /
Yumm. I just did a post on making hummus last week. It was my first time making it and it turned out great. I just love when things are simple yet taste so good ;) Thanks for the lovely recipe.
I have this problem with 8th Continent Light Vanilla Soy Milk. The stuff tastes AMAZING and has only 60 calories per serving! I've gone from grocery to grocery to Wal-Mart and each and every one that used to carry it STOPS! I even called the company and they didn't seem to know anything about their own product distribution! ARRRGH!!!
You are so right about the Great Lash mascara. It's just not the same.
Being the cynic that I am, I sometimes think that companies discontinue or change things on purpose. They know that out of desperation, we will end up buying 14 different tubes of lip gloss in an effort to find a suitable replacement for the one we so dearly loved.
It makes me want to keep a stockpile of all my favorite things... except I would probably end up on an episode of Hoarders.
This phenomenon drives me nuts, too! Jeans are especially difficult to find just the right pair...I just recently found the MOST comfortable-while-still-being-cute pair that I've ever owned. And your testimonial makes me want to go buy a lifetime supply of them. While I still can.
Also, I love hummus.
Smuckers Mango Jam. It pops up very infrequently at my Walmart, and I buy two or three jars. I don't want to be greedy, others should have the chance to enjoy the deliciousness, but I try to establish that MAYBE they should order more than 6 jars every 6 months.
It's a jam, it's a glaze, throw in some chipotle chile and it's a sauce for everything from fish to your fingers.
Punjab sauce from Trader Joes.
Chrissa,
Have you tried TJ's Korma and Masala sauces? They're good too. Or, Fresh & Easy makes a yummy Masala sauce too.
I am WITH you on the Great Lash mascara. What the heck????
Great looking recipe. I'll have to try it.
Golden Flake brand (only here in the deep south) thin and crispy sour cream and onion chips in the BIG bag!!! They only have the little bags now so when I want to buy them I look like the world's biggest piggo because I buy 6 or 7 bags all at once! Not to mention the fact that they are getting harder and harder to find! I am like some creepy gas station stalker looking for those things! They carry the ridged ones in big bags, but who eats those??? Not me! Stupid Golden Flake with their delicious light and crispy sour cream and onion chips!