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Thursday, August 29, 2019

Homemade PESTO From Home Grown BASIL

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Homemade PESTO From Home Grown BASIL

I so enjoy basil season! Harvesting this fragrant herb will send  glorious clouds of aroma into your neighbor's backyards.
If you are not familiar with pesto - it's kind of like a basil spread.  The traditional Italian pesto includes pine nuts but due to the extremely high price of this nut I have substituted that for walnuts (I actually prefer walnuts to pine nuts).
I freeze the many batches of pesto that I make each summer.  NOTE - I do NOT add the garlic until actually making a recipe (I do NOT freeze the pest with garlic included - the garlic becomes overpowering when frozen).
I use pesto to make Pesto Garlic Bread or Pesto Pasta - both are keeper recipes. 

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Printable Recipe

PESTO Recipe
8 cups basil leaves
1 1/2 cups grated parmesan cheese
1 cup walnuts
4 tablespoons olive oil

Harvest your basil.  Pick off only the choicest of leaves (if the leaf is half eaten then I compost it - I don't want to be eating bug saliva - lol).  Rinse & drain these choice leaves (see picture above).  Make sure that you get all the garden grit off the leaves (there's nothing worse than biting into sand/dirt).
In a food processor, add all ingredients (see picture below).

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Pulse or process according to your Food Processor manual until the pesto resembles the picture below.

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I fill glass ramekins with 3/4 to 1 cup pesto (packing it down tightly into the ramekin) (see picture below).  Continue filling as many ramekins as you have pest.  Cover each ramekin (I have a fitted lid - you might want to use a canning jar if your ramekins do not have fitted lids).  Freeze the pesto filled ramekins.  Once they are fully frozen I pop the pesto out of the ramekin and then transfer the "pesto puck" to a ziplock baggie (or I use my vaccuum packer).  Freeze until winter and enjoy a bit of August in February!  Or use the pesto now to make one of the recipes at the end of this post.

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Garlic Pesto Bread
1 loaf Italian bread
1 cup of pesto (or 1 thawed pesto puck)
1 to 2 garlic cloves (remove the skin)
Foil (large piece)

Process the garlic using a garlic press and stir this into the thawed pesto.  Cut the Italian bread in half lengthwise (see picture below)

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Spread the pesto on the inner bottom part of the bread and spread butter on the inner top portion of the bread (see picture below)

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Place each half of the bread on the foil - (you can either do open faced for crispier bread or place the two pieces together and wrap the foil around the bread).
Bake in a preheated 350 degree oven for about 10 minutes or until desired color or doneness is achieved.

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Slice & ENJOY!

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Pesto Pasta
1/2 package of bow tie pasta
1 cup of pesto (or 1 thawed pesto puck)
1 garlic clove (remove the skin)

Follow the directions on the package and cook the pasta to "al dente".  Drain and immediately add the totally thawed pesto onto the hot pasta.  Quickly stir until the pasta is covered (you might need to add a little butter or olive oil to make the pesto evenly dispersed).

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Serve while hot & ENJOY!

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Tuesday, August 27, 2019

Tuesdays with a Twist Blog Hop #331

Welcome to Tuesdays with a Twist #331!

Today's Seed Feature:
German Red Strawberry Tomato
$2.95 (25 heirloom seeds)

Grow in your own garden - view this post:
Gluten Free Tabbouleh Salad Made with Millet 

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Mary @ Back to the Basics and Mary's Kitchen
Marci @ Stone Cottage Adventures
Angie @ God's Growing Garden
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Each co-host will be sharing her own picks for Features. This gives everyone a better chance of being featured. Be sure to check all of our blogs to see if you were featured! 
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My Features this Week are:


1. "Grilled Peaches With Cherries" by Home Cooking Memories
2. "Blueberry Oatmeal Breakfast Bars" by Delightful E Made
3. "How To Make Naturally Carbonated Ginger Ale" by Oak Hill Homestead

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Monday, August 26, 2019

You're the STAR - Week#4 HOME (August 2019)

I feel like I have been swimming in tomatoes lately (haha - just kidding), we've been canning tomatoes about every other day.  God has blessed us with an amazing tomato crop this year.
Thank you again for joining us!
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WELCOME to the August 2019 "You're the Star" Blog Hop!
Before we continue onto the Linky party I wanted to share from my blog:
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WELCOME to HOME feature week of the August "You're the STAR" blog hop!
Meet your HOME week Hosts
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This week is HOME feature week
Swing by the Home Hosts' Blogs:
Bev @ Eclectic Red Barn
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This is a month long Linky party featuring YOU!
There will be 4 different features each week and 4 different feature categories.  Just to be clear - this is NOT a themed party - you may link up ANY family-friendly blog posts any day of each month. 
The "theme" occurs in our weekly features:
WEEK#4 HOME - recipes, home décor, antique/DIY &/or travel (this can include anything about your home - even history posts - all while remaining family friendly)


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(All features were chosen from the July "You're the Star" blog hop)

Victorian Chair Makeover by The Old Summers Home
Our Victorian Chair Makeover features distressed elegance and is by far my favourite upholstery project as of yet. Best of all it was instrumental in my finding my love for farmhouse decor.

Make Your Own Starfish/Sea Star by Fresh Vintage by Lisa S

DIY sofa table

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Sunday, August 25, 2019

Psalm 119 - ZAYIN (Hebrew Alphabet)

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ZAYIN - Psalm 119:49-56

The longest chapter in the Bible is Psalm 119.  If you turn to Psalm 119 in your Bible you will notice that there is a strange word every 8 verses.  These "strange" words are the letters of the Hebrew alphabet.  David wrote this chapter in an acrostic pattern and every letter of the alphabet is followed by 8 verses.  It is a chapter full of praise and worship.  I thought it would be fun to study Psalm 119 by summarizing each alphabetic section in an acrostic format.

I did not know anything about the Hebrew language, so I did a little research.  The Hebrew language is written from the right to the left - opposite of the English language.  There are 22 letters to the Hebrew alphabet.  Today we continue studying with the seventh letter ZAYIN.
I am also NOT a poet, so I had to research what an acrostic pattern meant.
An Acrostic Poem - is a poem where certain letters in each line spell out a word or phrase.
Example below.
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ZAYIN - My zeal for you Lord continues day and night, your promise renews my life.

Today, we will begin by defining the word "zeal" 
Zeal - great energy or enthusiasm in pursuit of a cause or an objective.  Passion, fervor, devotion, enthusiasm, eagerness, keenness and gusto.

Worshiping God should be an all day and all night occurrence.  With such enthusiasm and gusto for the Lord, we should have the desire to follow Him ALL THE TIME!

Do you dream in color?  Or, (it has been said that when you conquer a second language you will dream in that language) - have you ever dreamt in a second language?  The real question is:  Do you dream in God?  Do you wake up in the middle of the night out of a deep sleep yearning for Him and desiring to do His Will?  That's what David was basically saying in the verse below: 

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The eight verses featured today also talk about hardships:

My comfort in my SUFFERING is this (verse 50)
The arrogant MOCK me (verse 51)
INDIGNATION grips me (verse 53)

"The arrogant mock me without restraint, but I do not turn from your law."  Psalm 119:51

I had to refresh my memory on the meaning of indignation:
Indignation - anger or annoyance provoked by what is perceived as unfair treatment

"Indignation grips me because of the wicked, who have forsaken your law."  Psalm 119:53

This week, let's strive to be followers of Jesus Christ every second of every day and night!



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Wednesday, August 21, 2019

Worship Wednesdays #17 - WARRIOR

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Worship Wednesdays #17 - WARRIOR
This is the seventeenth post in a series called "Worship Wednesdays".  In this series I will focus on one word, thought or lesson and I will feature a modern Christian song that relates to the focus of the day.
Click HERE to read the post from a couple weeks ago: 
IF YOU'RE FREE, PROVE IT!

Let's begin by defining WORSHIP - the feeling or expression of adoration for a deity.  Adoration, love, devotion, adulation, glorify, exalt, praise.

There are many ways to worship God but in this series it will be through music.

“Seven times a day I praise you.” 

Psalm 119:164
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click HERE to read: "The Armor of God - 4 Ways to STAND"

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click HERE to read: "BELT OF TRUTH"


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click HERE to read: "Celestial Celebration - IT ONLY TAKES ONE"

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click HERE to read: "BREASTPLATE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS"

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click HERE to read: "FEET FITTED WITH THE GOSPEL OF PEACE"


A special thanks to "Ledger" for sharing this with us on YouTube

Related posts (click on each title to view the entire post):
Forgiveness - Questions & Answers
 Helmet of Salvation
Shield of Faith
Prayer & Persistence


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