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Saturday, January 23, 2010
Sun - Dried Tomato Pesto
Sun-Dried Tomato Pesto...Oh how we complicate things. Life should be simple, easy to handle, like food. As much as I like French Haute Cusine, and I especially love watching Julia Childs cooking. It is complicated, I'm to busy as it is. My wife, Annie and I made Sun-Dried Tomato Pesto yesterday, absolutely delicious. And it was very easy.
You need a few pieces of equipment that if you do any cooking at all will be a part of your kitchen collection. For this recipe, a spatula, a food processor, Cuisinart sells one for $40, a saute pan.
Please feel free to make variations, thats the fun part, along with eating.
Sun-Dried Tomato Pesto
sun dried tomatoes...a small handfull
basil leaves...a handfull
pinenuts or walnuts or both...a small handfull
(nuts should be toasted, toss them in a hot saute pan continuously for 1~2 minutes, don't burn)
garlic cloves...3
parmesan...1/2 cup
salt...1 tsp
pepper...a few twists..or..1/2 tsp
Place all ingredients into processor.
Turn on, using pulse button.
extra virgin olive oil...drizzle in slowly to desired consistancy.
Remove to saute pan, add favorite pasta, heat and serve.
If needed, thin out with some pasta water, also adding cream is very nice.
We made it without the basil yesterday, it was very good. Everyone loved it, including Isaac who is 14 and Alexis who is 2.
Of course the better the ingredients you use the better it will taste, sea salt or whole pepper in a mill, fresh garlic that you peel, imported Italian Parmigiana, from Parma, basil leaves from your own plant.
You can make food as easy or complicated as you want. My Italian heritage says, use good quality ingredients and don't spend to much time in the kitchen doing it. Eating is about family and community, spend as much time as you can with them. In fact why don't you get some good bread, a bottle of wine, make some pasta and go visit someone tonight.
You need a few pieces of equipment that if you do any cooking at all will be a part of your kitchen collection. For this recipe, a spatula, a food processor, Cuisinart sells one for $40, a saute pan.
Please feel free to make variations, thats the fun part, along with eating.
Sun-Dried Tomato Pesto
sun dried tomatoes...a small handfull
basil leaves...a handfull
pinenuts or walnuts or both...a small handfull
(nuts should be toasted, toss them in a hot saute pan continuously for 1~2 minutes, don't burn)
garlic cloves...3
parmesan...1/2 cup
salt...1 tsp
pepper...a few twists..or..1/2 tsp
Place all ingredients into processor.
Turn on, using pulse button.
extra virgin olive oil...drizzle in slowly to desired consistancy.
Remove to saute pan, add favorite pasta, heat and serve.
If needed, thin out with some pasta water, also adding cream is very nice.
We made it without the basil yesterday, it was very good. Everyone loved it, including Isaac who is 14 and Alexis who is 2.
Of course the better the ingredients you use the better it will taste, sea salt or whole pepper in a mill, fresh garlic that you peel, imported Italian Parmigiana, from Parma, basil leaves from your own plant.
You can make food as easy or complicated as you want. My Italian heritage says, use good quality ingredients and don't spend to much time in the kitchen doing it. Eating is about family and community, spend as much time as you can with them. In fact why don't you get some good bread, a bottle of wine, make some pasta and go visit someone tonight.
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