Nutrition Info: Calories:148 | Fat: 6.2g | Protein: 4.5g | Carbohydrate: 20.6g | Fiber: 3.5g | 4 Points +

Serves 4:

Ingredients from Cooking Light

1  garlic clove, peeled
2  tablespoons  fresh lemon juice
1  tablespoon  tahini (roasted sesame seed paste)
1  teaspoon  ground cumin
1/4  teaspoon  salt
1  (15-ounce) can black beans, rinsed and drained
1  small jalapeño pepper, chopped (about 2 tablespoons)
Dash of crushed red pepper
2  teaspoons  extra-virgin olive oil
Dash of ground red pepper
1  (6-ounce) bag pita chips (such as Stacy’s Simply Naked)

Preparation

1. Place garlic in a food processor; process until finely chopped. Add lemon juice, tahini, cumin, salt, black beans, jalapeño pepper, and crushed red pepper; process until smooth. Spoon bean mixture into a medium bowl, and drizzle with extra-virgin olive oil. Sprinkle with ground red pepper. Serve with pita chips.

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Another yummy hummus recipe, using black beans instead of garbonzo beans. It’s a spicy Mexican hummus! Next time, I’m going to add more cumin and garlic. I baked some pita chips in the oven at 400 degrees for about 12 minutes, or until they were golden brown. It’s a very yummy snack.

I was downstairs exercising after work today, and I can’t really trust my dogs. They chewed up a pair of my unmentionables  on Tuesday, and today they ruined the zipper on my work jacket. Now I have to figure out how to get that back on. Anybody know how to put the bottom part of a jacket back on where you connect the zipper?