The other night I had nothing in my ice box - bad dietitian - so I looked through the pantry to see what I could scrape together. What I found was:
leftover hummus
Armenian cracker bread
onions
garlic
cilantro
Armenian string cheese (not to different then regular string cheese except it has black sesame seeds woven through it and is more salty)
That was all I had in the pantry post-turkey day: aka time to go to the grocer. But I decided that I would saute the onion and garlic together with some salt, pepper, olive oil and dried thyme, which took about 15 minutes (b/c I had the heat on low so I could gab on the phone with my mother at the same time). Then I spread the hummus over the cracker bread (you could use crackers just as easy), topped with the onions and sprinkled with cilantro leaves. I ate the cheese on the side. That was it! Big Lar would have termed this meal 'Mezza' which is a middle eastern term interchangeable with the more well known Spanish term 'Tapas' or little tastes of everything.
So just remember everyone, the meal doesn't have to be a big elaborate, delicately intertwined event of flavors, you just need to be open minded about mixing and matching and you to can enjoy Mezza!
