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Bye-Bye Basil!

Date: October 23, 2013 / By Nancy Olah

If you’re a pesto lover like me, you may be trying to prolong the lives of your aging outdoor basil plants.  As our Carolina nights grow chilly, we’ve been covering ours with a sheet propped up with the screens we use to keep rabbits at bay in our garden. Today was the day to say goodbye to my ...

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Mint Pesto – a Refreshing Alternative to Traditional Pesto

Date: July 28, 2013 / By Nancy Olah

My mint was looking long, leggy, and desperately overgrown yesterday.  I decided to cut it back and see what a mint-basil pesto tasted like.  To my surprise, I thought it was a refreshing alternative to our traditional pesto genovese.I used about a cup of mint leaves and a 1/2 cup of basil, and ...

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New Twist on Pesto Chicken

Date: May 16, 2013 / By Nancy Olah

After lots of good feedback on my Pesto Chicken recipe from Fool A Carnivore, I made it tonight with a pepper crusted goat cheese instead of mozzarella and eliminated the pine nuts. It adds a much more sophisticated flavor to what has become a family favorite in our home.  We paired it with a lovely ...

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Pesto Chicken – Low Time Investment Yields Big Flavor

Date: April 22, 2013 / By Nancy Olah

Coming home from the office today, I had a dilemma.  I wanted to take a nice long late afternoon walk along our lovely greenway, but I also wanted to enjoy a delicious dinner.  Fortunately, I remembered an easy recipe from my cookbook that can literally be put together in minutes. Here was my ...

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Fresh Ginger – Made Easy

Date: February 10, 2013 / By Nancy Olah

OK - I may be the last person on the planet to realize this, but I had a revelation tonight while preparing the ingredients for a stir fry for my sweet husband who was on the way back from a Venture Crew event in Gatlinburg. (BTW, a stir fry is a great dish to prepare when you have no idea when ...

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Be Good to your Basil this Weekend

Date: September 13, 2012 / By Nancy Olah

As summer fades into fall, don’t forget about your precious basil plants. If they are starting to flower and turn woody, you may still be able to get several more weeks of good production if you act now. Go out to your garden and pinch back all of the flowering tops. My plants are enormous by this ...

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