The other night, I had my vegan friend over for dinner. At first I was terrified-- what the hell was I going to cook for her? All I have in my freezer right now is a bag of 78 meatballs that I bought at Ikea. So, I scrounged, and found a bunch of pasta and herbs in my fridge that I decided to make pasta with. I had never made pesto before, so I just kinda threw crap into a food processor until it tasted great. And lord, it tasted so great.
Quick and Easy Pesto: IngredientsMakes: 4 servings
About 3 cups of fresh basil
1 1/2 cups olive oil
1 cup of parmesan cheese (which I of course omitted for my vegan friend)
1 1/2 cups of crushed walnuts (or pine nuts if you're not poor like me)
2 cloves of garlic
1 tsp salt
Directions:1. Put a pot of water on the stove to boil. Add a little bit of salt to the water to make it boil faster, and add a little olive oil to the water so that the noodles don't stick.
2. Once the water starts to boil, add the noodles.
3. Crush the garlic, and chop it up into fine pieces.
4. Put the olive oil, garlic, walnuts, basil, salt, and cheese into a food processer, and turn it on.
5. Once the noodles are done, drain them and toss them immediately in your pesto mixture.
Serve with a salad (or I served it with grilled asparagus), and add chicken if you want! Pesto is great hot or cold, and it keeps well. Enjoy!
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Comments (6)
Major props for the name play.
Wow..what a bad name *facepalm* Nice recipe. Might have to try it out..minus a few things..
Sounds yummy.
:D
I had pesto when I was in Venice. I've never had problems with it before, because I usually made the cheap Knorr stuff that has no nuts in it. Despite my allergy to tree nuts being listed on the sheet my tour guide gave to the restaurant, they still must have put pine nuts in, so my throat started getting scratchy. Luckily, it was a minor reaction and I could still breathe but had a slight stomachache.
I LOVE PESTO. NOM NOM NOM
Mmmmm :D