23 Sep 2018, 3:30 am
auntblabby
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23 Sep 2018, 3:48 am
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With loads of fresh pesto. 
I love the ones with lots of garlic and chopped nuts.
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24 Sep 2018, 6:25 pm
y-pod wrote:
With loads of fresh pesto. I love the ones with lots of garlic and chopped nuts.
I love the ones with lots of garlic and chopped nuts.I'm addicted to pesto. Every year I grow multiple basil plants to produce as much as possible. Pesto sauce on pasta is better than sex!
25 Sep 2018, 7:16 am
VegetableMan wrote:
y-pod wrote:
With loads of fresh pesto. I love the ones with lots of garlic and chopped nuts.
I love the ones with lots of garlic and chopped nuts.I'm addicted to pesto. Every year I grow multiple basil plants to produce as much as possible. Pesto sauce on pasta is better than sex!
Do you mash all it lovingly with a pestle and mortar or stick it in your blender?
Sometimes I mash up garlic and salt then slowly add olive oil until it homogenises. I either stir in the pasta or tip it in the pasta water with greens.
25 Sep 2018, 9:56 am
VegetableMan wrote:
y-pod wrote:
With loads of fresh pesto. I love the ones with lots of garlic and chopped nuts.
I love the ones with lots of garlic and chopped nuts.I'm addicted to pesto. Every year I grow multiple basil plants to produce as much as possible. Pesto sauce on pasta is better than sex!
I take the basil leaves from the plants I grow and process them with olive oil, pack the mixture into canning jars and freeze it. When I'm ready for pesto in the winter, I thaw a jar out and then mix the garlic, cheese, nuts and it's nearly as good as fresh. I don't freeze pesto since frozen garlic loses its flavor over time.
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25 Sep 2018, 10:05 am
Pasta is one of my favorite foods! 
I like it tender but still firm.
Spaghetti and meatballs is one of my favorite meals, but my mother, who went to Venice a few years ago, told me that having meatballs in your sauce is a North American tradition and if you asked for them in Italy they'd laugh at you.
I also love noodles. I read that in Japan it isn't rude to loudly slurp your noodles because it shows that you really like them. I don't think I could handle going to a noodle bar in Japan with everyone slurping around me.
25 Sep 2018, 10:43 am
lostonearth35 wrote:
Pasta is one of my favorite foods! I like it tender but still firm.
Spaghetti and meatballs is one of my favorite meals, but my mother, who went to Venice a few years ago, told me that having meatballs in your sauce is a North American tradition and if you asked for them in Italy they'd laugh at you.
I also love noodles. I read that in Japan it isn't rude to loudly slurp your noodles because it shows that you really like them. I don't think I could handle going to a noodle bar in Japan with everyone slurping around me.
I like it tender but still firm.Spaghetti and meatballs is one of my favorite meals, but my mother, who went to Venice a few years ago, told me that having meatballs in your sauce is a North American tradition and if you asked for them in Italy they'd laugh at you.
I also love noodles. I read that in Japan it isn't rude to loudly slurp your noodles because it shows that you really like them. I don't think I could handle going to a noodle bar in Japan with everyone slurping around me.
Chow Mein is delicious.
25 Sep 2018, 11:38 am
25 Sep 2018, 11:41 am
VegetableMan wrote:
y-pod wrote:
With loads of fresh pesto. I love the ones with lots of garlic and chopped nuts.
I love the ones with lots of garlic and chopped nuts.I'm addicted to pesto. Every year I grow multiple basil plants to produce as much as possible. Pesto sauce on pasta is better than sex!
It may be more than the taste. It might have the right nutritious combination to make you actually happier.
Sticky ice cream does this for me. It's Turkish ice cream called dondurma. Diet Pepsi is also like an antidepressent for me. It has no nutritional value whatsoever but it just does this great thing for me.
25 Sep 2018, 11:55 am
domineekee wrote:
VegetableMan wrote:
y-pod wrote:
With loads of fresh pesto. I love the ones with lots of garlic and chopped nuts.
I love the ones with lots of garlic and chopped nuts.I'm addicted to pesto. Every year I grow multiple basil plants to produce as much as possible. Pesto sauce on pasta is better than sex!
Do you mash all it lovingly with a pestle and mortar or stick it in your blender?
Sometimes I mash up garlic and salt then slowly add olive oil until it homogenises. I either stir in the pasta or tip it in the pasta water with greens.
It depends on how many leaves I have. If I only have a cup of leaves, I use the mortar and pestle. Smaller batches don't turn out too well in my mini food processor.
