Comments: Making Pesto
April 6, 2008 02:24:00 PM posted by Nonna Look at you two!! What good workers you are. I love pesto too.
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April 1st 2008
Making Pesto
Abby and Zoë are ravinous pesto eaters. They prefer pesto to "red" tomato sauce on their pasta. Marge, their nutritionist, gave us a great tip about finding good quality and inexpense basil. So after Yoga today, we went to "Golden Harvest". The girls were excited about finding a bunch of basil for $2.50. We should have taken a photo of it, it was a good size, but the girls dug in and started pulling the leaves off. They helped with every step of the process. This was their first batch of pesto, and we can't wait to try it on pasta tomorrow with Grandma Cindy. We used raw cashews instead of pine nuts, and we didn't have good cheese, so we used the sprinkle parmesan kind. Oh well, it turned out great just the same. We made 430 grams in this batch for a cost of $2.50 in basil. I am not sure what the small amount of extra virgin olive oil, raw cashews [which are expensive], garlic and cheese cost, but I am sure the total cost is less than the $0.022 per gram for the pesto we buy at the supermarket when we want to treat ourselves to the american version of the good stuff. Using those per gram values, todays batch would have cost us almost $10 at the supermarket.
Abby @ 4 years, 3 months, 18 days
Zoë @ 4 years, 3 months, 18 days
Enzo expected in 5 months, 22 days
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