My first houmous experience was far from pleasant. I must have been about 12, we were on a family holiday there were over 15 of us all sitting round in a circle under the starry night sky in middle of our patch of tents and caravans, bundled up in big jumpers and blankets, surrounded by candles on tables and stuck in the ground. I was sitting next to one of my aunts and she was sitting eating a pot of houmous with probably pitta bread, I don't really remember but for the story's sake let's just say it was, and somehow I ended up trying it. She scooped as much as she possibly could on to this lone tiny piece of pitta bread and long story short there was choking, coughing and a lot of laughing involved. It's safe to say I did not enjoy the houmous.
A few years ago my sister bought some caramelised onion houmous in a supermarket which I tried, I'd say I was a convert but it's pretty much the only houmous I've tried, so of course I figured I'd make my own. I wanted to make sun-dried tomatoes and roasted garlic houmous because I couldn't really go far wrong. Unfortunately my houmous is not as smooth as it could be because the food processor is on it's last leg, but it still tasted just as good and some people actually said they liked it not being really smooth . So I wouldn't worry about your poor old food processor, they might not work afterwards but you'll get some tasty houmous out of it.
