Hi and good evening everyone.
Tonight, I had homemade hummus, stuffed grape leaves (filled with rice), 2 dried apricots, gluten free crackers and a Greek yogurt for dinner. Everything was 58 carbs. and was great for a warm Spring evening. Very filling and delicious!😀👍
Stay safe and healthy!😀👍🌈
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I will post a picture of a grape leaf very soon.😀👍🌈
I will have to post it possibly later next week, unfortunately.
Yum yum yum! I had hard boiled eggs crumbled on those pea protein rice cakes I mentioned, with baby spinach leaves. 😋🌸
That sounds like a great meal. Glad you enjoyed it.😀👍🌈
Thank you. I bought a new big jar of peanut butter today! Good eating tomorrow - it's my birthday. 😀🌸
Happy birthday! My birthday is this Saturday.😀👍🌈🎂
Ah, all the best people are born in May. Plus we are known for our modesty .....😁🌸
That’s right! I know a few people who are born in May.
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Hummus is very nice, I usually have it with carrot sticks. Dried and fresh apricots are delicious. It sounds like a flavoursome dinner. 😊😊
It was really good! I enjoy it every once a week.😀👍🌈
Happy Pre Birthday!
Thank you! It’s going to be an interesting birthday this year.
I want to post them!😀👍🌈
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Exactly!😀👍🙏🌈
That’s fantastic! The crackers are gluten free and good with the hummus.😀👍
I wish, but no. We are baking a gluten free cake and ice cream I bought with gluten free pasta and salmon on top.
I will have to take pictures of everything when I want to post about everything.
I think you should come to our house, and bring your recipes. We will fire up the bread oven and cook and eat till we gain 5 pounds, then go on a long bike ride.
You probably don’t want to get on a plane though, unless you can sit outside.
That’s very kind of you. I have been put in the high risk group and been told to stay here at home.
I am assuming you are in the UK. We are in California.
It’s a long hard trip.
Although I would go to England again without a second thought. Great place.
No, I’m here in the USA. Lots of friends in the UK and India and USA, though.😀👍🌈
Well, that makes things easier!
In some cases, yes.
Haven’t seen a grape leaf? Come to our house with Activity2004 and her recipes. We live in the wine country in California.
You can have all the grape leaves you want.
Stuffed with rice?😀👍🌈
Or anything else that sounds fun.
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What a beautiful and enviable part of the world you live.
I live in an area that everyone is from somewhere else. I have a multi cultural group that just lives on my street and I have coworkers from different countries. I haven't had a chance to see them, but we do lots of e-mail to keep in touch. 
Now that’s something: homemade crackers! Good for you.
I bet they would cook well in our bread oven.
The crackers are store bought, but hummus is homemade.😀👍
That’s just as good and easier.
Yes! Really good taste, too!😀👍🌈
Very healthy. Grape leaves?? Very interesting. x
Thank you! Grape leaves are one of my favorite Greek foods.😀👍🌈
Sorry for the delay in getting back to you today.
Love hummus and I think it’s fairly easy to make, right? All very low cal so good for you. All best wishes! K
lunch yesterday was hummus, celery/ nut/ mayonnaise , tomato, spinach mixed salad, beetroot, celery, red pepper, with a slice of turkey and a seeded brown Tesco GF bun, and a dab of butter. Very tasty. I have recently developed an intolerance to lactose so I have to watch out for lactose free products. However there are a lot of lactose free products available now. How do you make your hummus?
I will post the recipe later when I can.😀👍🌈
May I ask, are you Greek because I love stuffed grape leaves. I can’t make them very good, like my mother.❤️
Hi! No, not Greek, but I like Greek foods.😀👍🌈
Sounds delicious. I’ve had stuffed vine leaves before which I bought. Did you make yours or buy them ? Ali 🙂
We buy our grape leaves. 2 grape leaves are a serving for each person.
Yum I am salivating ...sounds lovely x
What flavor of hummus do you like to eat?
I am really boring and a rotton cook...I like the original ...or the best is when friends make their own x
Would love an easy to make hummus recipe. Do you have to have tahini? Not a hope of that here!
We do have to add some tahini to the recipe.
I had stuffed grape leaves at a restaurant once and loved them so much I tried to make them at home, but failed to recapture that delicious slightly tangy - probably vinegary - taste, and cannot find a good recipe. Can you please list the ingredients for the filling ?
Rice is what you can put in the grape leaves. Some people add other items.😀👍🌈
Thanks a lot for your input
You're welcome! Anytime.
Today for lunch, I had quinoa with artichokes and red peppers mixed together. Really good! I also had a Greek yogurt on the side.
The tangy flavour was probably lemon. Greeks use a lot of lemon juice in their cooking.
That's possible! It's good.
Sounds like just the sort of thing my dear old Mum used to make as she was Greek. Dolmades (the stuffed vine leaves) are one of my favourites. Well done making them - they can be a bit fiddly. Glad you didn’t post a picture of them I’d have been salivating! 😂😂 Take care. 🤗😘
Mine, too! Thank you for letting us know.😀👍🌈
what an adventurous culinary soul you are...The last time I hadd vine leaves stuffed with mince and rice, was xmas 1996, my BULGARIAN friends were cooking...Ever since I cannot eat anything stuffed. NOT THEIR FAULT, just me.such an experience, marked me for life, so I decided to stick to a bottle of wine just one, as I get sozzled with the rest tra la la:)mimi x
Hummus and grape leaves are our favorite things to eat once a week for dinner here. 😀👍🌈
I love hummus. Grape leaves? I know about grapes but never seen their leaves
What is your favorite hummus flavor?
The original. I don't like extra flavoured humus. I made it myself years ago & I put too much garlic in it. & it was so horrible I vowed NEVER to make it again so now I buy it in its tub
Different brands that make the original hummus sometimes do it differently and doesn't take as good. I learned this a while ago before the COVID 19 started. It's amazing what you learn when you're home!
That sounds delicious Leah. As soon as I've finished the low fodmap diet I'm going to make some hummus (I'm pretty sure I don't have an issue with chickpeas). 😋
What flavor do you want to do? I have to see if I can do olive flavor soon after I check if we have olives here.😀👍🌈
I'd love to do red pepper as I love the flavour and if course I'm sure I could incorporate peanut butter in there somewhere😉
Do you like tahini? It’s close to peanut butter in a way.😀👍🌈
I have tahini in the cupboard as I used it for one of the low fodmap recipes I made, can't remember which one now.
It's okay. When you think of it, you can let us know anytime. No worries.
Thank you Leah and I'm bound to make it again then I'll remember ha ha
I discovered a slow cooker! I just stick some veggies, spices and potatoes and whatever in. And by the evening its a delicious bubbling stew!
Low calories and super delicious.
Sounds really good! Enjoy!😀👍🌈
Thank you! The hummus is homemade. We do both— homemade and bought now and then.😀👍🌈
Hi,Activity 2004, I'm coming round,sounds delish,how did you make your Hummus,?
I used some tahini and chickpeas. I will post the recipe when I can either today or later this week.
Everyone will soon see what a grape leaf looks like in a few days. I promise.
Dumb question here: how do you make homemade hummus? Isn’t that crushed chickpeas? And, is there anything else, besides rice, in your mixture that you use to stuff in your grape leaf? Or could you use both rice & hummus to stuff in the rice. And, if you’re thinking “she’s asking the dumbest questions” I am & that‘s because I seldom to never cook & do not know anyone to ask. I see hummus at the grocery
store but have never bought it. 🧐
It’s okay! First, there are no ‘dumb questions’. Everyone can always ask questions small or big. We will try to give an answer to the best of our abilities. 😀👍
We have rice inside the grape leaf. Other grape leaves can be filled with beef/chicken/etc.. 😀👍🌈
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