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Article: Basil Goes Bonkers; ONE WOMAN COPES WITH AN HERB RUN AMOK
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- July 21, 1993
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Enough already! It's only mid-July and already I've had enough
pesto to last a season, if not a lifetime.
But tell that to my basil plants. Like my children, they just
don't listen. They ignore repeated pleas to slow down, settle back
and just take it easy in all this heat. No, the plants insist on
growing and growing and growing.
What's a frazzled cook to do? I've spent hours snipping off the
leaves, making batches and batches and more batches of pesto - for
pasta, chicken, fish, pizza, even on puff pastry for hot hors
d'oeuvres. What I haven't used, I've frozen.
In my house, pesto has become a pest.
It's like the zucchini that flooded our gardens a decade ago. So
little effort! Such a ...