On our way home from daughter L's fiance's family cottage, we stopped by some other friends to see their beautiful new cottage/retirement home. We all wore masks. I took the opportunity to purchase some new soaps from my friend as pictured above. I can't wait to try the charcoal and coffee soap. I gave the candy cane one with L. My friend gave me a large bottle of her basil pesto made with basil from her garden. It is delicious on pasta. I will try it on fish and chicken at some point.
Here is the recipe she shared with me, taken from the back of a Costco pine nuts bag.
4 cloves garlic
1/2 pine nuts
2 c fresh basil leaves packed tight
1/4c grated parmesan cheese
3/4 tsp salt
1/2 tsp pepper
puree in food processor or blender
How easy is that?
20 comments:
Mmmm. I love a good pesto sauce. I like it with pasta and as a base for homemade pizza. Thanks for sharing your recipe.
Yum.
I adore pesto!
I've made pesto before, but substituted walnuts for the pricey pine nuts. It had a different flavor, but was still tasty.
The pesto dish looks so good! Awesome finds!
So love this! Love to go soap shopping! Great pesto dish too!
Love this! Wonderful recipe, indeed!
Thanks for the pizza tip!
My sister also suggested walnuts and almonds thanks for the tip.
Looks delicious, Christine! It's nice to be back on blogger.
Yum, basil pesto is sooo good!
Great finds! I have never tried pesto in my cooking.
I do love pesto but need to have the dairy free ones!
You always have something great to share on your blog Christine...thank you!!!
thanks so much for the recipe. we just ran out of our jar of Pesto we get at Costco and we stopped our membership because we only get a few things from there. We have been looking in stores for Pesto such as costco sales, already made up. Finally we thought we have to make our own. And then I see this recipe over here.
Many thanks for sharing the recipe :)
All the best Jan
Never tried charcoal soap.
Looks good
Homemade soaps are the best!
I used a new one today, from a friend.
No going out for us though.
Noooo thank you.
retirement cottage sounds nice
thank you for recipe my friend
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