Small one loves food.  Hardly a surprise considering our household is obsessed every moment of the day with what it will be eating next.  Her ultimate food (since she first started eating at all) is hummous.  I know.  Slightly bizarre but the heart wants what the heart wants. 

We have literally eaten gallons of the stuff in the past 18 months.  So much so that I am now sort of totally, desperate to have something different.  I’ve been playing with some appetizer recipes for this weekend when we’ll have a bash for small one’s birthday. 

I’ll share pictures next week of the festivities 🙂

 I had some homemade ricotta and had an idea in my head to mix it with a bit of sweet and sour.  I wanted bright flavours and I needed a spread that had zero peanuts and zero sesame in it.

Here’s what I’ve come up with:

Lemon Ricotta Hummous

In my food processor:  1 cup of ricotta, the peel of one lemon (no white bit, that’ll be bitter), 1/4 cup of parsley, four dried figs that have been soaked in hot water until plump (keep the water for later) and salt and pepper to taste.

Pita chips round things out.

Happy eating 🙂