Pesto Part 1
October 4, 2025
Today turned out to be the day…. time to pull up the summer’s basil and make some pesto! It was already too late for the sweetest, most tender basil, but any longer and we’d have run out the clock. Our plants (we have 8-10) were getting long in the tooth, long-flowered, their leaves well-munched… so it was kind of now or never.
Jim brought in a huge armload of long, leaf-ful stems. He gave them their first bath, which got most of the birch detritus, dust, and bug remnants off of them. Then we plucked….
Then the leaves got a second wash…
Then they were laid out to dry…
Not going to blanch them, though some do to preserve a bright green color.
Tomorrow, we’ll make the pesto.
Life of Wry 