Couscous and Hummus

Here I am at my friends' place helping them make hummus and couscous. We chopped veggies and mashed chickpeas for hours to prepare a meal for our church family the next day. Hummus is a chickpea spread, with lemon juice, salt, garlic, and tahini (sesame paste). You eat it with bread. Couscous is the separated grain of the wheat plant and can be cooked like rice. Which is what we did once we got everything set up in the church kitchen the next morning. (Did you know there's no traffic in downtown Marseille on a Sunday morning around 8 am?) We served about 25 people after the morning service. We had the couscous with the cooked veggie sauce, along with the hummus, bread and a mediterranean salad (lettuce, olives, feta, olive oil). Then we had coffee and sweets. On a bien mangé, as they say. We ate well!