Dinner Coop

Dinner coop at my place yesterday. I made Tabouleh and homemade hummus, and got fresh olive bread from Bread & Cie and a moderately fancy California-grown olive oil from Whole Foods. The bread at B&C is so good. I don’t know why I don’t go there every day. It’s a block away, I am an idiot.

And Marisa made hummus with my leftover ingredients when she arrived, so there were TWO hummuses. Her secret ingredient is turmeric, mine is fresh ground toasted cumin seeds. TWO hummuses. So decadent.

I think things really came together. I got lots of nice compliments, and everyone seemed full but not stuffed. As long as you don’t go overboard on oil, and you serve with romaine lettuce for wrapping in, tabouleh and hummus can be a really wonderfully light yet filling meal. And it’s cold, so it’s the perfect choice for summer.

I got really mushy after the meal and started talking about how inspired I was by Nina Simone’s song Isn’t It A Pity, and how there’s so much love around us that we don’t even see. Everyone was being really sweet to me. It was a nice change from the anxiety that’s been the backdrop for the last week or so.