{"id":3306,"date":"2011-08-10T08:24:37","date_gmt":"2011-08-10T12:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meridithdesmondphoto.com\/blog\/?p=3306"},"modified":"2011-08-10T08:24:37","modified_gmt":"2011-08-10T12:24:37","slug":"recipe-pesto-sauce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meridithdesmondphoto.com\/blog\/recipe-pesto-sauce\/","title":{"rendered":"Recipe: Pesto Sauce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is one of those recipes that isn&#8217;t really a recipe.\u00a0 You know the kind with add a little of this or that, what ever you have on hand.\u00a0 I know some people reading are thinking, &#8220;oh lord I can&#8217;t make recipes like that, they always turnout bad.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0 I used to be one of those people!\u00a0 Never thinking that I could just whip something up.\u00a0 But this is so, so easy and if I can do it you can too:)\u00a0 Trust me.<\/p>\n<p>I love to make this in the summer and freeze it to have a taste of summer when it&#8217;s 23 degrees outside- it&#8217;s also really good on toasted bread in the winter- yum!<\/p>\n<p>I start with 1 bunch of basil from your farmers market or farm stand or if you&#8217;re near Monmouth County go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deliciousorchardsnj.com\/welcome\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">Delicious Orchards<\/a>&#8211; you won&#8217;t be disappointed(you can taste tomatoes here too- with salt!)\u00a0 You need a lot of basil and if I don&#8217;t have enough on my own plant(I usually don&#8217;t) I buy it and\/or I use spinach and\/or other green herbs like parsley, sometimes I combine them all.\u00a0 Then I toast up about 3\/4 cup of pine nuts(I just dump some into a frying pan for 5 minutes or so) or if you don&#8217;t have those you can use walnuts or anything else.\u00a0 I buy pine nuts at Costco in bulk which saves some money, just freeze what you don&#8217;t use for next time.\u00a0 Then I add some parmigiano-reggiano grated cheese(or any fresh grated cheese you have- preferably not the Kraft kind), salt &amp; pepper to taste.\u00a0 I combine all these in the food processor.\u00a0 Then once combined, with the food processor on, I drizzle in extra virgin olive oil(EVOO for those Rachel Ray fans!) until I get a creamy mixture.\u00a0 That&#8217;s it- very easy!\u00a0 To be honest it comes out a little different each time, but still tastes great!\u00a0 This is for 1 batch as seen in the photo below right which is about a cup of pesto.<\/p>\n<p>I love summer and pesto and easy dinners, Enjoy:)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3309\" title=\"Basil-1 w logo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.meridithdesmondphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Basil-1-w-logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"538\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.meridithdesmondphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Basil-1-w-logo.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.meridithdesmondphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Basil-1-w-logo-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is one of those recipes that isn&#8217;t really a recipe.\u00a0 You know the kind with add a little of this or that, what ever you have on hand.\u00a0 I know some people reading are thinking, &#8220;oh lord I can&#8217;t make recipes like that, they always turnout bad.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0 I used to be one of those [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meridithdesmondphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meridithdesmondphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meridithdesmondphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meridithdesmondphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meridithdesmondphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3306"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.meridithdesmondphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3311,"href":"https:\/\/www.meridithdesmondphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3306\/revisions\/3311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meridithdesmondphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meridithdesmondphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meridithdesmondphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}