I love the fact that there are more and more homegrown, farmstead videos/channels on youtube, the world really needs this! Keep up the good work and putting out these high quality videos!
This is great! Thank you so much. I like your flexibility with different nuts and greens. Your way of storing in silicone mini-bread loaves, freezing, then storing in bags makes it so accessible! Thank you and God bless you!
I wish I'd seen this a week ago, before the frost hit us! I froze a lot of basil but could've used it all by doing this! Will keep in mind for next year, thanks!
Be careful if you have a high speed blander like she has. She has a vitamix as do I. Blending at high speeds can make the pesto bitter. I did this a couple of weeks ago with the 1st batch from my garden. Trying it again in a couple of days, will go much slower. Hope it works out better. I'll report back.
Extra virgin olive oil can go very bitter if you blend it for a long time. One way to get around this is to use a neutral oil (I like avocado) initially and then add in the olive oil at the end to get that olive oil flavor while minimizing the amount of time the olive oil is blended. This will affect people differently mostly do to difference in products being used and how smooth people want their pesto to end up.
@@littlepotato2741 I wouldn't use a food processor if I wanted the best-tasting pesto. When your food food processor is turned on it slices everything into tiny tiny peices. Now, the issue with this is that it doesn't release all the flavor in the herbs and the texture is different. Food processed pesto is also more likely to oxidise and turn black because of the basil. You can blanch it to solve this issue and/or add a bit of lemon juice. A mortar and pestle will improve the flavor as you are grinding the ingredients into each other instead of just chopping it up, it will emulsify into a cohesive paste(pesto).
You can store it in the fridge for a few months under a layer of olive oil, freezing it is best under a layer of olive oil too because it reduces the chance of freezer burn/access to air.
