Homemade Pesto is the Besto

It's getting exciting around here. The garden is starting to produce in full force, and it's time to put up some food! Tonight, we made pesto with our basil and garlic.

Take these....

Put them in this...

And you get this!

We used this recipe, courtesy of the Food Network. 

Ingredients:
1/4 cup walnuts
1/4 cup pine nuts
3 TBS garlic, chopped
5 cups fresh basil leaves, packed
1 tsp salt
1 tsp pepper
1 1/2 cups olive oil
1 cup fresh grated Parmesan cheese

Put nuts and garlic in food processor, blend a bit. Add basil, salt, pepper. Slowly add oil as processor is running. Add cheese, process another minute. Eat, refrigerate or freeze. 

Mmmmm. I quadrupled the batch.