Lizzy welcomes you to the garden

Lizzy welcomes you to the garden
The blog for the UCSB Garden

Monday, August 17, 2026

pesto 2006

  I've been gravitating towards cooking via gram measurements over cups lately. and pesto is a prime example. What is a packed cup of basil? who knows. but x grams is easily measured. so, from Jamie O, but no cheese/plant based: 40g basil, 1 clove garlic, pinch salt, 1/2T miso, 3T evoo, 50g nuts. 1st five in a blender, grind nuts in a coffee grinder then add to blender at end. I'm growing a whole bunch of different varieties of basil this year; used pistachios for the nuts. Tomaters in the pic are apricot zebra, blue beauty, barry's crazy.