I was always buying hummus so I decided to try making it. It is more art than science. My first attempt wasn't very good because I didn't put enough tahini in it. The tahini is very important. Anyway, this is the basic recipe but you can do so many things to make it more interesting. I added some olive tapenade to one batch and it was great. You could also put some different savory spices in it and it would probably be great. Paprika would probably be pretty good.