Pesto sauce

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I'm looking for a fast recipe for pesto sauce, can anyone
help me?

Go to the fresh food section at the store and buy a
package of it pre-made. ;-) HEB carries a couple of brands
that are good.

Pesto is not a fast recipe.

K.

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Leggos make a very nice pine nut pesto, found with the other
jars of mustards pestos etc.
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Katra said:

Pesto is not a fast recipe.

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cristina said:

Katra said:

Pesto is not a fast recipe.

HUH?

I was thinking the same thing, Cristina! Pesto is, to me,
simply fresh basil and olive oil blended together,
perhaps with a sprinkling of pignolis or walnuts. Toss
with pasta - done.

Jill

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Katra said:

Pesto is not a fast recipe.

HUH?

Not when mom made it... It needed to sit for at least
24 hours once it was finished to let the flavors
mingle properly.

And it's not all that easy sometimes to find pinon nuts, or
sufficient fresh basil.

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> I'm looking for a fast recipe for pesto sauce, can
> anyone help me? >

Go to the fresh food section at the store and buy a
package of it pre-made. ;-) HEB carries a couple of
brands that are good.

Pesto is not a fast recipe.

Leggos make a very nice pine nut pesto, found with the
other jars of mustards pestos etc.

I like the "Sacla" brand.

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cristina said:

Katra said:

Pesto is not a fast recipe.

HUH?

I was thinking the same thing, Cristina! Pesto is, to me,
simply fresh basil and olive oil blended together,
perhaps with a sprinkling of pignolis or walnuts. Toss
with pasta - done.

Jill

If you say so. ;-)

If you don't mind something that tastes like grass
clippings........

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Pesto Sauce

2/3 cup basil leaves)
3/3 cup pine nuts or walnuts 2 cloves garlic, peeled
4/3 cup olive oil
5/2 C Parmesan cheese, freshly grated

Place fresh basil (leaves only) along with nuts and garlic
in a food processor or blender and process until finely
chopped With the machine running pour in the olive in a thin
stream. Add the cheese, salt and pepper to taste. and
process briefly to combine. Thin with 2 T hot water,

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anyone help me?

Pesto Sauce

2/3 cup basil leaves)
1/3 cup pine nuts or walnuts 2 cloves garlic, peeled
1/3 cup olive oil
1/2 C Parmesan cheese, freshly grated

Place fresh basil (leaves only) along with nuts and garlic
in a food processor or blender and process until finely
chopped With the machine running pour in the olive in a
thin stream. Add the cheese, salt and pepper to taste. and
process briefly to combine. Thin with 2 T hot water,

Excellent..... :-) For the pepper, regular black pepper will
do in a pinch, but the mixed peppercorns add an even better
depth of flavor IMHO. It's the only pepper we put into the
pepper mills now! We've gotten spoiled.

Really tho' it turns out better if made 24 hours in advance.

That is just a personal opinion. It mellows out the garlic
somewhat. If you need it quick, pre-roasted garlic might
work better.

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|| >>> [email hidden] (eanaj senoj) wrote:
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|| >>> > I'm looking for a fast recipe for pesto sauce,
|| >>> > can anyone help me? >
|| >>>
|| >>> Go to the fresh food section at the store and buy a
|| >>> package of it pre-made. ;-) HEB carries a couple of
|| >>> brands that are good.
|| >>>
|| >>> Pesto is not a fast recipe.
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|| >
|| > Leggos make a very nice pine nut pesto, found with the
|| > other jars of mustards pestos etc.
||
|| I like the "Sacla" brand.

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Katra said:

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jmcquown said:

cristina said:

Katra wrote:
>
> Pesto is not a fast recipe.

HUH?

I was thinking the same thing, Cristina! Pesto is, to me,
simply fresh basil and olive oil blended together,
perhaps with a sprinkling of pignolis or walnuts. Toss
with pasta - done.

Jill

If you say so. ;-)

If you don't mind something that tastes like grass
clippings........

If you don't like the taste of pesto, don't eat it. And
I saw your other comment about mellowing out the
garlic... lord knows why you'd want to do that! I love
garlic. But then again, we do get used to how mama used
to make things 🙂

Jill

eanaj senoj said:

I'm looking for a fast recipe for pesto sauce, can anyone
help me?

I make pesto by throwing all the ingredients in a food
processor. You can't get much faster than that. I don't even
measure. If I run out of one ingredient, I substitute. This
isn't exactly a recipe, but it might help:

1. Basil leaves. You can use other fresh green herbs, but I
usually don't start unless I have a lot of basil.

2. Nuts. Pine nuts are traditional. Walnuts are tasty
though last year they made the color browner
instead of bright green. A friend uses almonds. I
intend to try that.

3. Garlic. I like it. It is optional.

4. Cheese. Romano or parmesan, but there's no reason not to
use any hard cheese. Cheddar or swiss if you like them.

5. Salt if you've used a cheese that's not salty. This is
also optional.

6. Oil. A good flavorful olive oil is called for, but you
could use almost any oil. I often use less oil and more
cheese than is traditional.

One could argue that I'm not making true pesto, that my
pesto is a travesty and an insult to the good name of pesto.
We make it each summer when we can get lots of basil and
freeze it. We put it on bread and pasta. It tastes good.

--Lia

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Katra said:

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Katra said:

Pesto is not a fast recipe.

HUH?

Not when mom made it... It needed to sit for at least 24
hours once it was finished to let the flavors mingle
properly.

And it's not all that easy sometimes to find pinon nuts,
or sufficient fresh basil.

Katra, it takes but a few minutes to make pesto and we let
it sit for about an hour max otherwise IMO the basil
looses some of its flavor. But then, here in Italy what do
we know ;-)

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Nancy Young said:

WardNA said:

The only difficult move is cleaning out the blender
afterwards.

Blenders are the easiest thing to clean, just put a drop
of detergent, add water and give it a whirl. Then you just
have to wipe it down and rinse.

nancy

Dishwasher works great, too.

BOB

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In article <10462-4081F672-81@storefull-
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senoj) said:

I'm looking for a fast recipe for pesto sauce, can
anyone help me?

Go to the fresh food section at the store and buy a
package of it pre-made. ;-) HEB carries a couple of brands
that are good.

Pesto is not a fast recipe.

You are kidding, right?

Take a bunch of cleaned and rinsed basil leaves, put it in
your food processor, add a few tablespoons of olive oil, a
handful of pine nuts, some garlic cloves and some grated
parmesan cheese. Buzz it till the mixture is a loose paste.

Voila - pesto sauce - total prep time - about 5 minutes.

Paul

BOB said:

Nancy Young wrote:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Blenders are the easiest thing to clean, just put a drop
of detergent, add water and give it a whirl. Then you
just have to wipe it down and rinse.

Quoted message said:

Dishwasher works great, too.

Yeah, I'm sure, it's just not the kind of thing I would
think to put in there.

nancy

Nancy Young said:

BOB said:

Nancy Young wrote:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Blenders are the easiest thing to clean, just put a drop
of detergent, add water and give it a whirl. Then you
just have to wipe it down and rinse.

Quoted message said:

Dishwasher works great, too.

Yeah, I'm sure, it's just not the kind of thing I would
think to put in there.

nancy

LOL!

I usually use your method, but if I've just used the
blender, and the dishwasher is ready to be run (a full
load), I disassemble the blender and put all the parts in
the DW. It just makes me feel better, I guess.

BOB

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Katra, it takes but a few minutes to make pesto and we let
it sit for

about

Quoted message said:

an hour max otherwise IMO the basil looses some of its
flavor. But then, here in Italy what do we know ;-)

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Cristina

I'll defer to the Italians! How do you make your pesto,
Christina?

Dora