A midsummer night’s snack

Last night Nathan wanted to make hummus. We had a nearly full jar of tahini in our fridge left over from a batch of black bean hummus he made a couple of weeks ago. The label on the jar of tahini said it had to be used within a week, but since we had no uses for the tahini other than making hummus, we decided to tempt fate and keep it around awhile longer.

Nathan’s trip to the grocery store to buy some roasted red peppers resulted in him returning with roasted red peppers, two half gallons of light ice cream and a bag of Krunchers. I have to admit to requesting the ice cream to salve the wounds inflicted by my orthopedists needle, but the Krunchers were Nathan’s idea. He wanted to dip them in his hummus, but he didn’t buy just some ordinary Kurnchers. Oh no. He bought the Sweet Hawaiian Onion Krunchers in the pretty orange bag. So now two of my favorite treats are in the house; ice cream and chips. The only topper to this would have been if he had also brought home Christian Bale to scoop the ice cream out for me.

The hummus turned out great. He actually made three kinds; roasted red pepper, sun-dried tomato (made with a recently expired jar of tapenade purchased at Trader Joe’s last year) and a traditional hummus with huge kick of garlic. I think he said he used seven whole cloves and I could still taste the garlic in my mouth when I woke up this morning. My man. He knows what I like.

I was a light glutton last night and indulged in all the treats Nathan brought home without going overboard. I even got me some Christian Bale in the form of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, one of the three movies Blockbuster delivered yesterday.

A dream, indeed.