Originally, "on the hoof" meant "a live animal". If you paid a rancher X dollars for Y pounds of meat, you needed to know if that was Y pounds after it was dressed out or Y pounds while it was still alive, with all its inedible bits still on and adding to the weight.
It has come to mean "without preparation", as in, "I forgot I had to do an oral book report today, so I just got up and did it on the hoof."
In the case of the title of this post, it means.... Well, here's a recipe for hummus, given to me by writer friend
T. Lee Harris:
Garlic Lovers' Hummus
By T. Lee Harris
- 2 C. (One 15oz
can) chick peas, drained
- 3 cloves garlic, crushed (Less or
more to taste)
- 3 Tbsp. (Approx.) tahini, (sesame paste)
*
- Juice of 1 lemon
- 1/2 tsp. oregano
- 1 1/2 Tbsp.
olive oil
- Salt and Pepper to taste
Put chick peas,
garlic, herbs and olive oil in food processor and pulse
to make a
paste. Add lemon juice and process thoroughly until smooth.
Add
more lemon juice a little at a time if the mixture is too dry. When
it's well mixed and smooth, add a little of the tahini at a time
until
the hummus thickens to the desired texture. Add salt and
pepper to
taste. Place in a bowl, garnish with chopped onion,
chive, cilantro or
the like and you're ready to go.
* Tahini = 4 parts sesame seeds to
1/4-1/2 part sesame oil
(scant 3 Tbs sesame seeds + 1 tsp
sesame oil = approximately 3 Tbs)
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I didn't have any tahini and I didn't have a lemon, but I had half a lime. I also have sage growing right outside my back door, and I like it, too. I'm not madly keen about hummus, on the whole, to tell you the truth, but we do like chick peas. So this is what I did:
Hummus On The Hoof
By Miss Lazybutt
- 1 can chick peas, drained
- 1 cup frozen spinach, defrosted and
squozerized squishened water pressed out of it
- 1 teaspoon or so of garlic-infused olive oil
- dash of sesame oil
- juice of half a lime
- fresh sage leaves or dried sage
- salt and pepper to taste
Heat the oils. Put everything but the lime juice into the pan and stir until everything is coated with oil and hot. Put into a bowl and dress with lime juice and salt and pepper.
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