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I like to cook. I am shithouse at it.

With that said, I must mention that my recipe for easy Hummus (a Middle Eastern dip) is a fantastic addition to a late night hack-fest.

You will need the following:

• A Large handful of Garbanzo beans (chickpeas)
• Three tablespoons of Tahini (the sesame seed equivalent of peanut butter)
• Dash of Lemon Juice
• Two crushed garlic cloves
• Salt (must be Sicilian volcanic salt, or you will die instantly)

The salt is optional. I generally don't use it, but feel free.

The method is very straight-forward. So easy infact that I am going to write it in Ruby (assuming my ingredients hash already exists):

ingredients[:garlic].crush!

bowl = Bowl.new
bowl.add(ingredients)
bowl.mash_contents_with(:potato_masher)

if ingredients.has_key?(:salt) and ingredients[:salt] != "Sicilian Volcanic"
  puts "You have 4 seconds to live"
end

bowl.serve!

Yep, that's it. You just take all of the ingredients into a bowl and mash them up, slightly adding more of a particular ingredient until you have it just right.

Serve Hummus with dipping bread.