Hummus

I've tried several different hummus recipes, and I've never made anything better than what I can buy at the store...until today. Below, the best hummus recipe I have yet to find:

2 cans (15.5 oz) garbanzo beans
1/3 cup fresh lemon juice (2 lemons)
1/4 cup tahini
2+ tablespoons olive oil
1+ tablespoon coarse salt
2-4 cloves of garlic
parsley
pinch of cayenne pepper

Reserve 1/4 cup garbanzo bean juice, rinse beans.
Blend all ingredients together in a blender.

Eat.

Whole Wheat Cinnamon Oatmeal Raisin Muffins

This is the first baking recipe I have posted on here, I hope to do more. The recipe is a mish mash of 3 recipes that I found. It also originally had buttermilk in it, but it had gone bad by the time I got around to making these.

These muffins can be eaten for pretty much any occasion. I had some for lunch, breakfast and dessert. They were gone in under 24 hours (not including half of which were shipped across country to Arletta in New York).

1.5 cup water
1.5 cup steel cut oats
1/2 cup pastured butter (i used half butter, half veggie oil - I don't know the exact amounts...but less than was suggested)
2 eggs - beaten
1 cup whole wheat flour
1 tsp cinnamon
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
3/4 - 1 cup raisins soaked in 1 tbsp Whiskey
1.5 tsp vanilla
1/2 cup brown sugar (could increase if you want something more desserty)

Preheat oven to 400°F degrees.

Boil water. When boiled, remove from heat and add the oats, butter, sugar and veggie oil. Cool.

Meanwhile mix remaining dry ingredients. Stir in egg and oat mixture.

Spoon into greased muffin tin, cook for 15-25 minutes (until toothpick comes out mostly clean).

Easy as muffins.

Chicken and Peanut Sauce

Every time I think about making this recipe I'm always a little unsure if it will be any good. Every time I make it it's always very good. You think i'd learn my lesson, but for some reason I don't.

Chicken:
Marinate cubed chicken for one hour in the following:
Soy Sauce
Olive Oil
Brown Sugar
Ginger (fresh grated is best)
Garlic (fresh chopped is best)
Dash of red pepper flakes
Sesame Oil

Peanut Sauce:
1/2 cup peanut butter
1/2 cup water
1 tablespoon vinegar (or, even better, 2 tablespoons lime juice)
1/2 tsp ground coriander
1/2 tsp cumin
dash salt
cayenne pepper (the more the spicier)
garlic
dash olive oil

Whisk all peanut sauce ingredients together until smooth and put in saucepan.
Sauté marinated chicken in pan.
Once chicken is about halfway done, start heating the peanut sauce.
Finish cooking chicken while keeping an eye on peanut sauce and stir it occasionally. Make sure not to burn.

Serve chicken with peanut sauce on the side. Add veggie and rice if desired.