Pesto
Posted by Thomas Nephew on August 18th, 2009
Basil is one of the few things that grows reliably in my back yard, so I grow a lot of it for pesto. Since I lose the recipe each year, I’m going to save one here.
Ingredients:
- 8-10 cloves garlic
- 1 1/2 cups pine nuts or walnuts
- 12 cups basil
- 1/3 cup olive oil
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
To make pesto:
- Put olive oil, garlic, salt and nuts in food processor, make slurry.
- Add basil, 4 cups at a time, food processor on high until all leaves are processed.
- Transfer pesto to container, fill to near top, add a little olive oil to the top to prevent browning.
We add parmesan cheese later on, whenever we actually prepare the pesto; without the cheese we can freeze or refrigerate this “almost pesto” for weeks and even months.
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August 18th, 2009 at 11:37 am
Dear Thomas Nephew,
I’m afraid that you have plagerized from me. This “pesto business”–why, that’s just like what WE make at OUR home. And I’m afraid that that picture you took is of OUR kitchen and OUR basil harvest, so therefore, I’m suing you for 10000 million dollars.
Yours Truly,
A daughter who likes to have fun messing with her dad
August 18th, 2009 at 12:12 pm
By the way dad,
Sorry it looked like I was in your account. I don’t know how that happened. Maybe you took my laptop and used it for putting something on, once, and never logged out? Anyways, you did plagerize,even if it WAS from yourself. (did i spell “plagerize” right?)
Maddie
August 18th, 2009 at 4:18 pm
plagiarize
The Spelling Guru
August 18th, 2009 at 8:18 pm
Freezing cheeseless pesto: brilliant! Thanks so much.
Now where the h*ll are my ripe tomatoes? It’s late August, fer cryin’ out loud.
Hey, did you see the positive development in the Troy Davis case? It was preceded by another Times article last Friday about the rise of lonely but impassioned dissents in lower courts on death penalty cases. The article credited the cumulative effect of a lot of DNA exonerations, and frustration with the rigidity of the 1996 federal law that made it harder for death row prisoners to appeal, but I think it’s also a sign that U.S. society is rejoining the rest of the world on the issue. Slowly.
Of course, the SC decision also featured this lovely bit from two justices who should never have been confirmed:
Justice Scalia, in a dissent joined by Justice Clarence Thomas, said the hearing would be “a fool’s errand,” because Mr. Davis’s factual claims were “a sure loser.”
He went on to say that the federal courts would be powerless to assist Mr. Davis even if he could categorically establish his innocence.
“This court has never held,” Justice Scalia wrote, “that the Constitution forbids the execution of a convicted defendant who had a full and fair trial but is later able to convince a habeas court that he is ‘actually’ innocent.”
Gotta love the airquote around ‘actually’. And these guys have lifetime jobs… Think Quakerly thoughts, Nell. Go make some pesto.
August 18th, 2009 at 10:51 pm
Just to note that the SC opinion explicitly places the burden of proof on Davis to prove his innocence, not on the state to prove him guilty. Not sure what the proposed standard is — beyond reasonable doubt or preponderance of the evidence.
August 19th, 2009 at 1:40 am
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September 5th, 2009 at 9:40 am
Thank you, Uncle Robert. “The Spelling Guy.”
Maddie (:
September 5th, 2009 at 9:41 am
I meant
And by the way, why is Troy Davis being kept? I mean, is it possible to convict him without too much proof? If it is, I’ve lost faith in the American Justice System. 
September 5th, 2009 at 2:21 pm
He was convicted for the murder of a police officer in Savannah, GA, with what seemed to the jury at the time like enough proof. But there’s no physical evidence (like the gun that fired the bullet), and 7 of the 9 witnesses against him have recanted (taken back) their testimony, saying the police badgered them into claiming things that weren’t true. And one of the other 2 witnesses is a prime suspect himself.
You can read more about it at various posts on Mick Arran’s blog, on my blog, or on a special Amnesty International web page. Like that page puts it, the law is putting finality (that is, the idea that once a verdict has been reached, and appeals about that trial are over, that’s that) over fairness: the idea that if later on overwhelming reasons to believe someone is innocent after all, that person should not be executed.
September 24th, 2009 at 4:29 am
I usually don’t comment on blogs, but this recipe changed my opinion. I just write to say thank you!