Put this under the caption of "be careful what you wish for." I thought it would be lovely to plant a little garden...just enough fresh vegetables and herbs for our little twosome of a family. Nothing big or abundant. Although the weather has alternated between scorchingly hot and hellacious downpours of rain and hail, our little garden has boomed! We're especially bountiful in basil at the moment and we're on the verge on a tomato tsunami! We're eating the cheery cherry tomatoes by the handfuls as then become ripe, but what to do with the basil? I hate to see it go to waste! We've had chicken with basil cream cause, basil orzo salad, a delicious caprese salad (with edible nasturtium flowers!) and I love a good old grilled cheese sandwich or BLT with basil tucked inside.
I've frozen a nice size package of the leaves and still have plenty to make pesto sause, and perhaps infuse some olive oil with basil (yum) and make some basil butter. All of this from one, very healthy, plant. The neighbors have there own, so no give-aways there. Wait until the zucchini plants really get going. Oh Heavens!
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