Pesto

I’ve been trying to come up with more recipes lately, and today my sister wanted to make pesto with a whole plastic grocery bag full of basil that she picked from a friend’s garden. I had a recipe from the food processor cookbook, but I ended up making a few adjustments. Here’s what I ended up with:

Ingredients:

• 4 tbsp shredded parmesan
• 1/4 cup pine nuts
• 2 cloves garlic
• 1 tsp sea salt
• 2-2.5 cups (packed) basil
• 1/3 cup olive oil

Directions:

1. Process parmesan and pine nuts, then set aside.
2. Process garlic and sea salt.
3. Add in basil and olive oil, then process.
4. Add back in parmesan and pine nuts, and process.

We ended up making 4 of these batches and freezing most of it in old baby food or small minced garlic jars. Some of it we used tonight on a chicken, tomato, and pesto pizza that was delicious!