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When life gives you lots of basil, make pesto!
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Pesto!
Other: Ingredients:
Time:
10 mins
Difficulty:
Easy
Serving Size:
depends on how much basil you use
  1. Lots Basil
  2. Pine or Walnuts or both
  3. Good parmesiano reggiano
  4. Good olive oil
  5. Salt
  6. Pepper
  7. Garlic
Preparation:
  1. Wash a bunch of basil. Like 2 cups or more. Make sure its dry
  2. Peel and chop your garlic
  3. Grate the parm or slice it or make it into chunks that will fit in a food processor
Instructions:
  1. Make sure everything is at hand. You will have to act quickly here.
  2. Put the garlic, salt, pepper and the nuts in the food processor. Pulverize.
  3. Leaving the processor on pulverize, shove the basil down the shoot.
  4. Now shove the parm down the shoot.
  5. You should have a kind of clump of basilly goodness now.
  6. Turn the processor to low and pour olive oil down the shoot slowly.
  7. You are drizziling here. Pesto should look nice and creamy and easy to spread so just eyeball it.
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Old 06-28-2009, 06:36 PM   #2 (permalink)
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"Chute." Other than that I give you an A. Sounds great!

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Old 06-28-2009, 07:09 PM   #3 (permalink)
witly verbiage hear

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sigh. i knew that. i blame the pesto
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