Pesto!!!!

So I made some pesto...I actually didn't follow a recipe for this. We had extra basil in our garden that Chris had cut when we got home from our vacation. Anyways, we had garlic chicken with pesto whole wheat pasta. No complaints from the peanut gallery but then again it was a rough Monday so he knew better.

Ingredients:

3 - 18-in stalks of basil, cut leaves off at the bottom of the leaf and rinse

1/3 cup evoo

3/4 cup shredded parmesen cheese

1 garlic clove, chopped

1 -2 tbsp water

12 raw almonds, chopped

S & P to taste

I always think it is gross and depressing when recipes ask you to pour over half of your bottle of expensive olive oil into a bowl/blender/sauce pan so I try to use as little as possible - hence the water in the recipe. Anyways throw everything in a blender and process until smooth. I used almonds because I didn't have pine nuts. Probably should have used pine nuts but oh well - didn't have them.

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