After my success in getting M to eat marinara sauce laced liberally with basil, I decided to strike again while the iron was still hot. There was still half a bunch left over and as you all know, basil is a notoriously poor keeper, so it needed to be used up.

It wasn't hard to decide what to do with it either....new season garlic + fresh basil = pesto.

I got to, stripping the leaves and placed them in the vitamizer with a couple of cloves of garlic, gave it a good glug of olive oil and blitzed it to a puree. Hearing the action, M came into the kitchen.

"Can I help?"

"Sure, you can put in the pine nuts."

M took the measuring spoon and counted out three spoons, into the jug they went for a quick blitz. I don't know how anyone else feels about pine nuts, but I find them totally addictive and always buy more than I need. M popped one in her mouth.

"Mmmmm, these are good, I'm going to share them with mummy."

With that, she turned on her heel and walked back to the loungeroom, pine nuts in tow.

Geez, good help is hard to find.