Making my own

One of the wonderful things I got for christmas this year was a food processor. A full on, 14 cup capacity cuisinart. I used my moms for the period we overlapped at the Storrs house, and it is an incredibly versatile piece of equipment. What this has prompted me to do is to start making things that I would ordinarily buy.

First up was hummus. I've been eating a lot of celery with peanut butter because organic celery was on sale for a dollar a bunch or something ridiculous and peanut butter is delicious. So I figured I'd mix it up with some hummus. I tried a variant Alton Brown suggested, using peanut butter and sesame oil as a substitute for tahini, since the only tahini I could find locally seemed very overpriced. Not the same, but definitely edible.

I also made salsa, which is not a new thing for me, but something I've been craving to supplement breakfast burritos.

I keep meaning to make bread, since I have all the necessary tools and ingredients, but keep putting it off because I had other things to eat and take for lunch. Tomorrow is another possibility.

A post at the Homesick Texan has me considering making my own chorizo, as while it's very easy to come by here, making it from scratch gives me a lot more control over the ingredients and thus quality.