The Realtor's Pesto

Total Time: 10 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins

Ingredients

• 2 cups tightly packed fresh basil leaves
• 3/4 cup olive oil
• 1/2 cup grated romano cheese
• 1/2 cup loosely packed fresh parsley leaves
• 1/4 cup pine nuts (i usually use pecans because i always have them around)
• 2 -4 garlic cloves, chopped into chunks

Recipe

• 1 place all ingredients in food processor bowl and process using metal blade until finely chopped but not mushy.
• 2 spoon into jar and cover with a thin layer of olive oil to prevent the mixture from darkening.
• 3 refrigerate for at least 2 hours so flavors can blend or up to 2 weeks.
• 4 to freeze, put tablespoonfuls of the pesto mixture into ice cube trays. freeze and pop them out as needed. i keep the whole ice cube tray in a big ziploc bag to keep the pesto cubes fresh. you could pop them out and store them in the bag without the tray but i've found that they stick together too much.
• 5 i use about 1/3 of a cup or so per pound of pasta and 1 or 2 cubes per 1lb of roasted or steamed veggies.