Posted in Picnic Food, Quick Meal Ideas, Salads, Versatile Accompaniments, tagged chickpeas, green beans, pesto, Picnic Food, salad, sweet corn, tomato, wheat berries on September 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This salad is excellent picnic food and I make it to take with us sometimes when we go out for the day. But I do make it quite often otherwise too. Shri likes to take it for lunch so this is what the girls and I had for lunch too, yesterday, with the steamed trout.
Wheat [...]
Posted in Baked Main Meal Dishes, Quick Meal Ideas, RECIPES, Starters and Snacks, Versatile Accompaniments, tagged grill, pesto, salmom, trout on July 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This is just the nicest way to cook with either of these two varieties of fish.
Grilled Salmon/Trout with Pesto
250 gms of boneless fillet or pave of salmon or trout
some lime juice
salt to taste
approx 1 tablespoon of pesto
Sprinkle salt and squeeze the juice from at least 1/2 a lime over the fillets. Keep aside for a [...]
Posted in Dips,Chutneys,Sauces, RECIPES, tagged basil, parmesan, pesto, pine nuts on July 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Ever since the girls ate the delicious pasta with home made pesto at Radhesh’s home some weeks ago, they have wanted to know why I don’t make pesto at home too.
Well, I used to, when they were babies, but back then only Shri and I liked it, the girls always seemed to prefer the bottled [...]
Posted in Picnic Food, Quick Meal Ideas, Starters and Snacks, Versatile Accompaniments, tagged avocado, Mediterranean, Mozzarella, multi-grain, olive bread, pesto, salad leaves on February 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
There is a wonderful Mediterranean salad, which brings together tomatoes, mozzarella, and either fresh basil or pesto. The result is an incredibly fresh and flavorful dish.
Sandwiches and paninis that combine these ingredients are common in boulangeries here, and I often make variations of that theme.
This is the sandwich that Shri feels he could eat every [...]
Posted in Picnic Food, Quick Meal Ideas, Salads, tagged pasta, pesto, salad, vegetables on July 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It has been so hot this year – or may be I forget from one July to the next how bad it can get – that my usual enthusiasm/willingness to cook has deserted me more often these past few weeks than I can remember it happening before.
But the family has to be fed; so I [...]
Posted in Easy One Pot Cooking, Quick Meal Ideas, Soups, tagged basil, carrots, courgette, parmesan, pesto, pine nuts, pistou, soup, tomatoes, turnip, vegetable on June 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This morning, I was standing in front of the refrigerator, wondering which vegetable to sort for the day.
A little digression here. “Sort” here does not mean “to sort out”. It means “to take out”.
This is how living in France for 9 years has ruined my English, without making my French fluent.
For some years now, I [...]
