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My latest obsession is tea. I’m drinking plenty of it. Since my mentor is Korean, I am drinking high mountain oolongs, Yixing style. This is a photo of my friends attending one of my frequent tea parties.

For my own and for other people’s benefit, here is my recipe.

Ingredients:

• 1 kilo garbanzo beans
• 1 kilo Tahini
• 1 garlic
• 2 large lemons
• 4 tablespoons of crushed cumin seeds
• Salt to tase

Garbanzo beans should soak overnight in water with a tablespoon of baking soda. Make sure the water is about four fingers higher than the beans, they expand.

Put the beans in a pot with fresh water and cook for about 2 hours, or 1 if it is a pressure pot. Make sure the beans are easily crushed between two fingers. The softer they are the smoother the hummus will be. Don’t throw out the water, you will be using it.
Put the beans in a food processor (they probably won’t all fit, you’ll have to do a few loads). When the food processor starts choking add water from the cooking pot.

When the beans are smoothly processed add the tahini, lemons, garlic, cumin and salt to the mix. Liberally add water from the cooking pot, get the consistency to be more watery than you would like, when it will all cool down it will solidify.

That’s it!

Now that I have a blog I could share with you my heroes. One is E.D. Morel, I learned of him when I read the book King Leopold’s Ghost a few years ago.

It took me a while to like blogs. I first thought that it is where people could publicly park their ego, but slowly I started reading other people’s blogs, and liking it, and then I noticed that there are people around me that I respect with blogs, finally I remembered that my family in Israel is always trying to drill information about my daily life here, so I figure this is a good way to communicate, be expressive, and polish my writing skills.
I will admit that this is not my first personal web site, when the web and I were young I constructed a personal shrine in the form of Eitan’s Slime Pit. Since I had no photo of myself in digital form I used a picture of Schwarzenegger in his early days. It was fun, but at some point it didn’t feel very tasteful anymore, so I took it off.
Welcome to Monotonous.org, yes mom, I know what monotonous means, it’s an adjective that I like. I’ll admit that until Friday I didn’t know how to pronounce it, Jon helped me out with that, and it took some practice.
I should thank Jeremy for hosting this site and helping me out. It is weird to use a computer without root access, it brings back Unix to it’s early terminal use.

Nothing official