You can't make pesto without fresh basil. Of course, I grow mine. It grows easily from seeds that I plant, started in peat pots, on my south facing porch... Basil loves the sun. Keep it well watered. Basil can not tolerate frost!
Use a blender for this: Pinch off basil leaves, discard stems. Wash the leaves. Put them in your blender, pack them down, add a cup of extra virgin olive oil, and 1/2 cup of grated Romano cheese [or more, if you like it extra cheesy and sharp], add a bit of black pepper, if you like. If you like a milder tasting pesto you can make this with 1/2 basil leaves and 1/2 baby spinach leaves.
Whirl the blender at medium speed, then at high speed until the pesto is a smooth and lovely green paste. Use pesto on crackers, pasta, salads... It freezes well.
A most fay welcome to a Green Faerie's Witchcraft Herbal!!!... "Come away, oh human child, to the waters and the wild. With a faery hand in hand, for the world's more full of weeping than you can understand." ~ William Butler Yeats. ...Oh, don't forget to scroll down to the bottom of this blog so you don't miss out on the beautiful and fascinating info on the origin of the fey, fey cities, gorgeous portrait of kindly and wicked faeries, etc.!!!
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You can use this old faerie call: "Come out from your faerie bower... Come out on this golden hour... Come out to me faeries, please, faeries dancing on the breeze."
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