Homemade Pesto!

I finally made homemade pesto! Finally finally finally. I have only wanted to do this for 5 years when I had some of my friend Anne’s homemade pesto. It’s not hard, maybe a little expensive but very easy if you have a food processor. I chose to go with a simple, standard recipe.

My only picture of the pesto, very green and fresh!

Ingredients

2.5 oz basil

½ cup pine nuts

½ cup olive oil

1/3 cup parmesan cheese, shredded

2-4 cloves garlic

Salt and pepper

Instructions

1.     Wash and de-stem the basil leaves.

2.     Combine all in food processor and mix! It helps to put the basil leaves on the bottom.

3.     Taste and add anything you think is necessary. I thought it tasted too much like olive oil so I added more garlic. You can also add some lemon juice too.

Review

I used minced garlic from the jar: not a good idea. Use real garlic cloves, friends. I am also realizing now that I forgot to add salt or pepper! But Ian and I still thought it tasted great and FRESH! That was the most noticeable difference between homemade and store-bought. I cooked it on my Eggplant Pesto Feta’s (EPF’s) and that also helped to get rid of any bitter olive oil taste.