We lasted just one week with "Try-Something-New Tuesdays." It's just that this week was so busy, and we weren't even home on Tuesday night, so we had to move our weekly culinary experiment to Saturday. This week we decided to try pesto. Pesto, like curry, is one of those things that I'd tried and disliked when I'd eaten it years ago (in the college cafeteria, natch), but I feel like it's something I shouldlike. I thought that maybe making our own would help.
We grow a lot of basil plants. They're everywhere - in window boxes attached to our porch, in pots in the backyard, and a few plants are growing in with our peppers and eggplant, too. We picked a bunch of basil leaves, cooked up some pasta and asparagus, and had a nice summer dinner. We both liked the pesto a lot. I'm not sure if it was because it was fresh, or because we could season it to our liking, but it was really good - much better than the college version had been. And, even better, it was super simple to make.
I love pesto too! And I think homemade pesto tastes so much better! And like you said, you can season it to what you like; the amount of cheese you like, the amount of salt and pepper, pine nuts or not, the amount of oil. I've made pest before with basil and I tried it once with arugula. Yum!
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