Pesto Bean Dip

Healthy and yummy snacking- my favorite combination.  I love beans and I love pesto, but I never had combined them until I tried this recipe from Mollie Katzen’s Enchanted Broccoli Forest cookbook.       I used canned organic navy beans and pesto made from the garden.  See my pesto post.  Since you can make the petso…

Parsley-Serrano Pesto

One of the things we picked up at the farmers market in San Diego was a parsley-chili pesto from Hani’s Market (a local San Diego company).  This was a wonderful thing, I found myself finding excuses to eat it all day long.  I would put it on pita bread points, on crackers with cheese, on…

Cammy’s Pesto

By now, you should be aware of how much we like pesto.  So, to make sure he always can have pesto to eat, it was time for our “Top Chef” Cammy to make his own.  His was just like mine, minus the pine nuts. For the recipe, see my Pesto post. The only problem with…

Basil & Garlic Scape Pesto

 I think this is the third pesto recipe I have included so far.  Are you getting the hint that we like pesto?  It is a staple in our house, perfect for days when I come home late and don’t have time to cook.  I prepare the pesto the night before and then my husband just…

Pesto

If I had to name the one go-to food in our house, it would be pesto.  Not only do I love it, but when my son refuses to eat anything else, pasta with “the green stuff” always brings a “Yes!” I like to make a double batch and freeze the extra in one of three…

Garlic Scape Pesto

If you like garlic, you definitely need to try garlic scape!  And this pesto is a simple and quick way to truly enjoy it! I had gotten garlic scape from Beechwood Orchards at the Univ. of Pennsylvania farmers market. Garlic scape is the shoot from the garlic that produces the flower and seeds. To cook…