Basil
Basil - (Bajeicò in Genoese dialect)
This aromatic plant, basil, is passionately cultivated by Genoese and is the essential ingredient of the Ligurian salsa called “PESTO”. (Green sauce with basil, garlic, pine-nuts, Sardinian sheep’s milk cheese and Parmesan, and virgin olive oil. All ingredients which should be ground in a marble mortar with a wooden pestle, hence the name)
It is not enough to say basil to make good pesto. It is essential know where it comes from.
Basil must, at the very least, be grown near the sea; that grown inland, worse still if it comes from the other side of the Apennines, tastes of mint. And that is the worst definition for basil: to taste of mint!!
In this photo basil cultivated in my vegetable garden.
----------------------------------------
Please don't use this image on websites, blogs or other media without my explicit permission. © All rights reserved
You can see my images on fluidr: click here
You can see my most interesting photo's on flickr: click here
Basil
Basil - (Bajeicò in Genoese dialect)
This aromatic plant, basil, is passionately cultivated by Genoese and is the essential ingredient of the Ligurian salsa called “PESTO”. (Green sauce with basil, garlic, pine-nuts, Sardinian sheep’s milk cheese and Parmesan, and virgin olive oil. All ingredients which should be ground in a marble mortar with a wooden pestle, hence the name)
It is not enough to say basil to make good pesto. It is essential know where it comes from.
Basil must, at the very least, be grown near the sea; that grown inland, worse still if it comes from the other side of the Apennines, tastes of mint. And that is the worst definition for basil: to taste of mint!!
In this photo basil cultivated in my vegetable garden.
----------------------------------------
Please don't use this image on websites, blogs or other media without my explicit permission. © All rights reserved
You can see my images on fluidr: click here
You can see my most interesting photo's on flickr: click here