I Love Hummus!

Hummus with crushed basil eaten with spelt crackers

I think I had my first ever hummus like two years ago and it was delicious, an excellent lunch snack and I think it's healthy too! I don't think there is anything unhealthy when you are eating too much chickpeas and olive oil - which essentially is what hummus is all about.

To cut the long story short, since having tasted hummus for the first time, I started learning, tasting and discovering more on Mediterranean/Arabic dishes. Since then, I've made couscous, lamb mandi and a few attempts of hummus without the tahini or tahina. I have yet to make my own tahini, although I've stocked up on the sesame seeds ages ago. Probably I just need to get some chick peas to get me started with the tahini paste.

My version of the hummus : coarsely ground because that's the way I like it!

Hummus is real easy to make. All you need to have is some boiled chickpeas ( I don't really like can chickpeas), tahini ( can do without), garlic ( optional if you love the garlicy taste, I just avoid it because I don't want to have bad breath), good extra virgin olive oil, salt, paparika(optional). With all these ingredients, simply blend them in a food processor or a blender until it is smooth and silky. I made the one above a bit chunky because that's how I like eating my beans or nuts - haha. You know like chunky peanut butter, so yeah, it's the same way with hummus.

If you grow up eating boiled chickpeas with salt like I do, probably you should give hummus a try. In fact, even if you've never had hummus in your life, you really should give it a try. It's delicious and there are so many other hummus recipes out there. There are easy to make, fast and didn't I just say that hummus is so delicious!

I Have A Dream : To Live in A Tiny Home

If you haven't known already, of course you don't - I have the craziest dream to one day live in a tiny home or a container home - basically, anything small, minimal but functional, efficient, energy savings and ultimately self-sufficient - with built in solar energy to power the home and treated water from the underground. I think the whole idea seemed so possible to achieve when the family bought a container cabin and we literally lived in there once in a while. The tiny home living experience got even better when I stayed in Holiday Parks around New Zealand and we stayed in a self-contained cabin : totally equipped with running water, portable heater, kitchen, dining/living area, bathroom and the beds!

I simply love the idea that we don't have to have much 'stuffs' to be happy with our life and to appreciate the little things that we have around us. Thus,  living in a tiny home seemed like an ideal way to live, at least for me that is. Perhaps, I wasn't one of those kids who dreamed, when I grow up that I wanted to have a huge house to live in. Despite saying that, while growing up I've had the privileged to live in different houses and some are really big ones. While it's great to have space for yourself living with few other people in a home, however, the daunting fact on the amount of cleaning you have to deal with is not a good thing for a cleaning freak like me. I think I have a small case of OCD going on where I literally have to constantly wash my hands, wiping, washing, scrubbing, collecting stuffs which drives me insane but I just can't help from not doing them.

Hence, I believe it make more sense for someone like me to have little stuffs to deal, so there will be less mess to clean up and living in a tiny home seemed like the perfect thing to do. I really hope, soon enough in my lifetime I will finally achieve this dream of mine. If you think it's not possible to live in a tiny home, well think again because a lot of people are actually living in them especially those in big, metropolitan cities in the world.

I'm going to stop here by sharing the kind of favourite YouTube videos that I enjoy watching from time to time and one of them is this Tumbleweed Tiny Homes:

Save The Turtles - WWF Malaysia!

Hey! What do I have in the post yesterday?

It's a WWF - Save the Turtles magnet!

WWF - Save The Turtle!

Fast facts on 'em turtles :

"Only 1 out of 10,000 hatchlings survives to adulthood which means that fewer turtles are living long enough to reproduce." - WWF Malaysia .

Then again, why would we want to bother so much about turtles anyway?

"Green turtles constant grazing help to increase the health and growth rate of the sea grass beds which are essential in supporting other marine species." - WWF Malaysia.

If I understood the letter correctly, the sea grass beds provides food and habitat for fishes, shrimps, crabs, seahorses and many more tiny living creatures underwater.

Hence, if you take you want to be a part of the people who help to make a change in this world, I highly recommend you to help out with this cause. For more info you can visit WWF Malaysia website: http://www.wwf.org.my/

Personally, I feel that the more that I learn to 'give', it seemed that my life is more meaningful and worthy. There is that unexplained 'satisfaction' and 'happiness' that you gain by just giving which is true to the saying ," The more you give, the more you will get back. " I always believe in that and for that with God's willing, I will continue 'giving' , Insya Allah.