{"id":508,"date":"2013-10-23T18:27:32","date_gmt":"2013-10-23T23:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunlightbay.com\/blog\/?p=508"},"modified":"2013-10-23T19:24:36","modified_gmt":"2013-10-24T00:24:36","slug":"harvest-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sunlightbay.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/23\/harvest-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvest Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

We don’t have a garden or a truck patch; we can’t even grow good tomatoes around here. But, we can usually grow a few herbs in a flower bed or a pot. My favorite herb is basil, and we usually have several plants growing in a flower bed somewhere.<\/p>\n

At the end of summer each year, I usually harvest the basil and make pesto. That’s what I did today. I made regular pesto and had enough basil for three batches with enough left over for making several batches of one of my favorite recipes\u2014\u201cTomato Pesto\u201d (see below). \u00a0I froze most of it.<\/p>\n

I\u00a0pulled up the basil by the roots, then broke off the roots and washed the basil plants with a hose outside. I hung the basil in the garage until it dried. \u00a0After the washed basil had dried, I brought in inside, stripped off the leaves and made pesto!<\/p>\n

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To make these pesto recipes all you need is a food processor and all the ingredients, of course. You basically dump everything in the food processor and let ‘er rip.<\/p>\n

I got the recipe for pesto from \u201cSimply Recipes\u201d<\/a> but any recipe will do. All pesto recipes are all about the same.<\/p>\n

Fresh Basil Pesto<\/h1>\n