June 17, 2010

Julie's fresh pesto

Well, I didn't have all the ingredients for traditional pesto, so I made one up myself. Jason said it was the best pesto he's ever had, so I thought I would share it with you. It started out with me just pruning my basil and needing to do something with it, so I only had a handful of leaves. I added to it a sprig of fresh oregano - of course this is minus the stems. Then I added 1/4 c feta because I didn't have any fresh Parmesan. I used 1/2 c walnuts because I didn't have any pine nuts and 3 large cloves of garlic (which was really strong, so next time I'll just use 2 cloves). I put all this with a small squeeze of lemon (to keep it all green) into the food processor. Then I added about a 1/2 c of evoo as it was chopping. All this is to taste. I didn't add any salt because the feta was salty enough. All of these measurements are total estimates because I never actually measure anything.