Piggie’s really DO give each other piggy backs. They climb onto each others backs and rush about honking like little trains having races.
I gave them a mud puddle to play in yesterday.
Sheila is hoping for cabbage leaves to come flying over the garden gate.
Time to prune the grape vine I think!
Basil Pesto
- 1 cup ripped basil leaves, no stalks.
- 1 clove garlic
- 2 tablespoons walnuts (roasted in the oven until sweet)
- 1/4 cup olive oil
Grind in food processor or with mortar and pestle.
- Stir in 1/4 cup of grated parsmesan cheese.
I freeze this in little blocks or in small jars without the cheese. Then add the grated cheese after it is thawed. Though this batch was so tasty it immediately went onto pasta for a quick lunch.
“Oh. What?” says Boo, The Savage. “This is your gumboot? I could have sworn this one was mine.”
Good morning. I hope you all have a lovely day.
your friend, celi.
The Kitchen's Garden 
54 responses to “Muddy Piggy Backs!”
Do your mud boots have little leaks or holes in them today? Mud boots are so much fun to chew compared to my little bone! I can almost smell your bountiful basil crop from here and I so long to have my own garden. Happy pesto making! Take Care, BAM
I used to freeze the complete Basil Pesto when I made it years ago. I always put it in small serving sizes in the freezer and froze it in a thin, flat container so it thawed in minutes.
You are so lucky to grow it in the garden. I’ve had no luck on my sheltered balcony wee potted herb garden – not enough sun (even in mid-summer). I only buy basil or coriander from the organic store or market if it smells really fragrant. So many herbs one buys nowadays have little fragrance.
I’ve heard that coriander (called cilantro in the U.S. I believe) makes a nice pesto, but never tried it myself.
I make pesto with walnuts, too. I also like cilantro pesto with some red onion and lime juice and walnuts. But I spent the day roasting figs and making peach chutney and cobbler because Saturday’s market had ten pounds of imperfect peaches for ten dollars.
Ah, simple things – a mud puddle, cabbage leaves, a game of piggyback, a gumboot and a bunch of basil… I see them and start humming “Green acres is the place for me. Farm livin’ is the life for me. Land spreadin’ out so far and wide…. just give me that countryside.” 🙂
Thanks for the basil pesto recipe, C. Sounds even enough to make.
It’s amazing to me that a pig will completely submerge it’s face in mud like that. What a sight!
That is a nice bed of basil & I’m so glad that you posted the pesto recipe. I’ve been looking for a good one. That piglet with his face in the mud is priceless as is Boo’s expression as he guards your boots for you. You’re so lucky to have him else someone might just steal them from your back porch you know.
very good point, I am sure that is what he is doing, ‘guarding’ my boots.. This pesto recipe is my favourite, it has been taken down to its most basic so all the ingredients need to be top knotch, but it works as well for kale my other favourite pesto, tho it is best to wilt the kale first.. c
Look at all of your Basil! I would be in pesto heaven. That picture with the pig’s head in the mud really did make me laugh out loud. They are silly creatures, aren’t they! 🙂
I learned in one of my master gardener classes that the basil plant now has its own blight, and is causing lots of unhappy growers this year.
Been making batches of pesto- I’ve gotten lazy and just make it with all the ingredients. I use a little lemon juice and salt too. We are eating it on everything but my fav mixed in an egg scramble with peppers, sausage bits, and fresh tomatoes at the very end.
cheers wt