Garden

Pesto!

I should have snapped a picture of the basil in my garden because it had grown into such a large healthy clump! The past couple days I’ve been meaning to harvest it before it tried to flower, and this morning Scooby and I went out in search of pine nuts, which we finally found at Fresh Market.

I made my pesto with a colander full of fresh basil, three large cloves of garlic, about one-fourth a cup of olive oil, parmesean cheese, and pine nuts, a pinch of salt and pepper. I didn’t measure anything, but just tasted as I went. I pulsed it in the mini-food processor and then used the mortar and pestle for a little extra smoothing and a nice photo op.



For lunch, I cooked some Sundried Tomato & Gorgonzola Rravioli by Nuovo which I purchased from Whole Foods. I topped it with the pesto and a fresh tomato from the garden. It was delicious!

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