Pesto recipe from the brother

I’ve been experimenting a bit in the kitchen with other people’s recipes and even updated my recipe page once again due to the fact that these were keepers in my books, and tasted awesome enough to make again.

For instance. The other night for dinner, I was feeling like making my Brother’s “Pesto”. Is it still called Pesto if it’s made from spinach rather than basil? Not sure I’m a huge fan of basil. Either way, I liked it — but I wasn’t fond of the crunchiness from the slivered almonds I used. My boyf on the other hand was pleased with it. Next time, I’m using a mortar and pestle.

Close up of the tasty action.

The pesto itself was pretty darn awesome and I couldn’t even describe it because the flavors in my mouth were twinkling with delight. You’ll just have to make it for yourselves. 

The chicken was so juicy. I rarely and I mean rarely cook chicken in the oven because hello “Mister George Forman” grill himself takes half the time. I forgot how good a chicken can be in the oven. I kinda like it. Especially because I didn’t have to keep checking on it like I do on the grill.

Anyhoodle, off I go!

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Fabrific 4

I was tagged by Brittney, who lives in my city and we HAVENOTMETYET. But I’ll still do the tag, regardless. Mainly because 4 is my favorite number. Right? Right.

Here we go!

1. Four tv shows that you watch:
  • Desperate Housewives
  • The News with Peter Mansbridge lol
  • The Shield (on DVD)
  • House
2. Four things you are passionate about:
  • Climbing
  • My graphic design career
  • Everyone I love: friends, family and pets
  • Getting home more than 1x per year to see my little Irish nephews
3. Four words/phrases you say a lot:
  • Yes b’y, Yes now.
  • Moses
  • Really?
  • or whatever

4. Four things you’ve learned from the past:
  • Patience is key. ( <–Stolen from Brittney)
  • If you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say it at all
  • Treat people the way you want to be treated, even if you realllllly dislike them. You don’t know what people are going through, so be kind to them
  • Don’t assume
5. Four places you would like to go:
  • Italy
  • The pyramids
  • Thailand as well, (Brit, you and I should go together ha!!)
  • Somewhere where the beaches are white, and the water is turquoise, and where you won’t get murdered….
6. Four things you did yesterday:
7. Four things you are looking forward to:
  • Christmas in Newfoundland
  • Seeing my healthy Dad :)
  • Spending time with my Mom (alone for a day!)
  • Seeing my friends at the climbing gym in the next few weeks
8. Four things you love about winter:
  • Soft snowfalls without any wind
  • Sitting in front of my parents fire place
  • Going for walks in the crunchy snow
  • Looking at all the Christmas decorations on people’s homes
9. Tag four people to play along:

  • J at All She Blogs
  • Leanne at Fresh Season
  • Anyone else who’d like to do it?
  • You!?

Off topic: but would anyone be interested in seeing a video of me talking about christmas gift ideas or is that too over done?

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