Vegan pesto
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iresiFor christmas I got a food processor from my parents. I hadn't used it until recently when me and my vegan friend decided to make vegan pesto with it.
None of us had done pesto before. My vegan friend had found a vegan recepie so we went shopping the ingredients. Well basilica of course, pecans and garlic and olive oil. I already han garlic and olive oil at home. Usually one has parmesan in it as well but since my friend is a vegan we had to skip that. There are vegan cheese one could use instead but then one needs to find a special store for that. So I finally unpacked my food processor but my friend said that the blades weren't sharp enough in the machine... they were plastic (later on I found what I think might could be used instead) so instead we used the mixer that came with it.
I was busy doing the dishes since I suck at doing the dishes and had lots to clean so I let him do the pesto while I cooked the pasta. He asked me if he should have 5 garlic cloves and I didn't know so I said that that sounds good since garlic is healthy and tastes good. But when he was done all it tasted of was garlic! :P So the pesto was no success unfortunately. We had bought some frosen vegetables that I put in the oven to eat with it too... and I guess they tasted better then the strong garlic tasting pesto :P Had some sun-dried tomatoes with it as well. Then we watched a documentary about how the industries has made things break after only a few years so that people have to buy new things all of the time... such a waste...
Then he downloaded a program for making music in for me and we started on a song together :P Sounded so much like an 80ies song that in the end we were playing 80ies music :D
This is what the pesto looked like when it was done. (This was before I added the vegetables from the oven)
My vegan friend in my kitchen... he is much better at cooking then I am :P
My food processor
None of us had done pesto before. My vegan friend had found a vegan recepie so we went shopping the ingredients. Well basilica of course, pecans and garlic and olive oil. I already han garlic and olive oil at home. Usually one has parmesan in it as well but since my friend is a vegan we had to skip that. There are vegan cheese one could use instead but then one needs to find a special store for that. So I finally unpacked my food processor but my friend said that the blades weren't sharp enough in the machine... they were plastic (later on I found what I think might could be used instead) so instead we used the mixer that came with it.
I was busy doing the dishes since I suck at doing the dishes and had lots to clean so I let him do the pesto while I cooked the pasta. He asked me if he should have 5 garlic cloves and I didn't know so I said that that sounds good since garlic is healthy and tastes good. But when he was done all it tasted of was garlic! :P So the pesto was no success unfortunately. We had bought some frosen vegetables that I put in the oven to eat with it too... and I guess they tasted better then the strong garlic tasting pesto :P Had some sun-dried tomatoes with it as well. Then we watched a documentary about how the industries has made things break after only a few years so that people have to buy new things all of the time... such a waste...
Then he downloaded a program for making music in for me and we started on a song together :P Sounded so much like an 80ies song that in the end we were playing 80ies music :D
This is what the pesto looked like when it was done. (This was before I added the vegetables from the oven)
My vegan friend in my kitchen... he is much better at cooking then I am :P
My food processor
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Date: 2012-03-11 01:42 am (UTC)ive never had pesto
i dont like hummus maybe pesto is a bit different than hummas lol
i thought the things at the side were bbb q chicken or something and i thought that cant be right lol so they must be the tomatoes?
your processor looks good and thats a big fridge i think lol
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Date: 2012-03-11 11:30 am (UTC)Actually I were thinking to make hummus at first but a co-worker said he had made pesto and since I like pesto so much I wanted to try to do it as well.
Haha, yes the things on the side are the dried tomatoes :P
Yes, I have a big fridge but it is rarely full... I try to empty it as much as I can before I buy new food so I don't have to throw away too much food because I hate doing that. Now for example I don't have much in it. Only a few lunch boxes I made in the freezer and potatoes in the fridge and some onions and a few vegetables and some bananas :P But I can cook something with it today and then buy new food tomorrow :)