My bird does a "Yack" head flcik for supermarket hummous but he loves the home made stuff.

There's loads of recipes on the internet but the key thing is that you don't need all the oils etc.

Soak chickpeas overnight, boil them (takes ages, 40mins?), blend the chickpeas and equal amount of the water you boiled them in (add more of the water to make paste), add spoon or 2 of tahini (sesame seed paste, the only real 'taste'), season.

You can add the other stuff for your own human hummous but "O" likes it on fingertips in its pure form

Bet you never thought you'd get a recipe from a bloke.  Even a rubbish one.  Only costs about 20p a tub though and I'm the king of pikies.

I should add that most recipes you will see suggest

"Boil the chickpeas vigorously for ten minutes at the start of cooking. This is essential. Chickpeas contain a toxin which is destroyed by boiling"

but other parts of the internet say

"In India, where food is often scarce, some people have resorted to eating a non-edible pea known as Lathyrus sativus. It is often called "chickpea" but is NOT the same chickpea eaten in this country or any other developed country. The edible chickpea is of the genus Cicer and in botany is known as Cicer arieti-num."

I don't think it maters, you have to boil these bad-boys for about an hour.

As ever though, the internet puts me off doing something otherwise fun and healthy.

What happened to what are now 'BL' parrots before the internet?