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Basil Pesto - A Taste of Italian Summer

Basil Pesto - A Taste of Italian Summer

Classic Basil Pesto - little tastes better and little else is so easy to make.  Get the children to whizz it up.  It tastes like a warm summer day in Positano and smells like heaven. I was taught this by an Italian grandma.  She never used garlic, but some people like it.  If you do, use only the merest whisper of it or you will kill the perfume of the basil and make the pesto bitter.     This Italian nonna prepared her pesto in a mortar and pestle; it was an act of love.  Most...

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