“Green” Hummus
Late last year, I had purchased a brand new electric pressure cooker for one main reason: to cook chickpeas from scratch. For one thing, I’m a little wary of eating canned foods on the regular. No scientific reasoning behind this, but it was just a matter of eating fresh food as often as I could. After I pressure cooked my first batch of chickpeas from scratch- I was hooked. It was so much more affordable to buy dried beans in bulk and I don’t know if it’s a psychological thing but everything I make with freshly cooked chickpeas tastes so much better! This hummus recipe was inspired by, well I should actually say the main reason I made this hummus was because I have a super sweet co-worker who grows a ton of vegetables and herbs and regularly brings me things from her garden. This past week she gave me, no joke, a 13 gallon bag filled with mint. I had mentioned to her that my local grocery store has a weird shortage of mint i.e. they …