Farmer Nerdyy cooks his harvest

1. Authentic Pesto (the rest are in the freezer)

Ingredients:

A huge bunch of basil (about three large plants worth of leaves)
5 cloves of garlic
About one cup of pine nuts
One cup of fresh grated parmigiano reggiano
One cup of extra virgin olive oil.

 Combine ingredients in a food processor and umm process :) To store add a little more oil to the container so that the pesto is submerged in oil.


The basil is from farmer nerdyys garden :)

2. Marinara

Ingredients:

About 15 tomatoes from farmer nerdyys garden ( a mixture of cherokee purple, yellow pear, roma and early girl), diced
Two small onions diced
4 cloves of garlic crushed
Few basil leaves and marjoram from the garden

Heat 2 tbsp of oil in a heavy bottomed pan (heavy bottomed for equal distribution of heat). Add onions cook till translucent, add garlic cook till it gives aroma or fried garlic, add all the tomatoes and stir over high heat. Keep stirring till most of the liquid becomes thick, then put it on simmer for abt 30 minutes. At the end stir in the julienned basil and marjoram leaves.

At some later point of time this will become a meat sauce :)