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Recipes from the Grapevine CottageRecipes --> Other Recipes --> Fresh Basil Pesto Fresh Basil PestoOn Saturday we harvested fresh basil from our sidewalk garden and made fresh pesto. I am sure many of you out there have bumper basil crops, too. Here is a simple but classic pesto recipe given to me years ago by a former employee. The recipe came from her mother, who may or may not have been Italian. But it doesn't really matter since it turns out easy, but great tasting pesto! When we ran this recipe last August, I received a number of comments from pesto purists who took issue with our use of a food processor. Purists believe that the only true pesto is a quasi religious experience achieved by hand, using a mortar and pestle. After all "Pesto" does mean "Pounded Sauce" in Italian. It's a lot of work and probably an invitation for carpal tunnel syndrome but I have also reproduced Fred Plotkin's Pesto recipe from his book Recipes From Paradise: Life and Food on the Italian Riviera as presented in the July 31, 2000 issue of Wine Spectator. We try to keep our recipes quick and easy. So, I apologize to you purists out there. If you have the time and energy to do it by hand, I salute your diligence! I'll keep the Cuisinart! Fresh Basil Pesto
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