Please post your mint pesto recipe.  I have been looking for a good one. 

My husband, Gary is 51 and he still likes getting an Easter Basket.  I wasn’t going to do them this year because my daughter is about to turn 19, but they insisted. They demanded their annual bunny pancakes, too. 

A few years ago, I found out that then my 94 year-old grandmother had never had an Easter basket.  I started sending one to her, too.  She loves getting them.  (She’s 97 now and would make a great poster ad for MTM.)

Some things you never outgrow. The right to an Easter basket is one of them.

No problem. The recipie is straight from the Food Network.

MINT PESTO:
1/4 cup unsalted almonds, toasted*
1/4 cup freshly grated Parmesan cheese
1/3 cup extra virgin olive oil
3/4 cup fresh parsley leaves (Or you can use basil if you want)
1 1/4 cups fresh mint leaves
3 medium cloves garlic
Kosher salt
Freshly ground coarse black pepper, optional
Put the almonds, cheese, and the olive oil in a food processor and pulse until pureed. Add the parsley, mint, and garlic and process to a smooth texture.
Cover and refrigerate for at least 1 hour. Taste for salt and pepper and add if needed. Serve the pesto or refrigerate up to 24 hours.

*To toast nuts: Place nuts in a dry saute pan over medium heat. Toast, while shaking the pan to avoid overheating in 1 spot. Remove from the heat after 3 to 5 minutes when the nuts have become a nice pale golden color.
I usually freeze small amounts in the freezer and defrost as needed.
This is delightful with lamb. I hope you enjoy it.

On a side note I think it’s great that your grandmother enjoys her Easter Basket. 97! That’s amazing! My great Aunt in Columbia, South America just turned 97 this year and I had the wonderful opportunity to travel with my father to meet her for the first time. She looks great and I have a very good feeling that I will be going back there to celebrate her 100th!
The only reason I didn’t want a basket this year is because I really didn’t want to have all of that sugar in my house. (Out of house, out of mind) I usually give it all to my boyfriend but he really doesn’t need to be eating all of that candy either.

The women on my father’s side of the family are very long-lived and very active.  My grandmother still walks about a mile a day, lives alone, goes shopping and gets her hair done once a week, goes to the Senior Center and volunteers as a new member coordinator 4 days a week, and travels to see her children twice a year. My great grandmother lived to be around 116 before she died.  She was active running her farm until the day she died.  My aunts are in their mid 70’s and they just bury me with their activity levels. 

There is something to this fitness and movement stuff. 

Thanks for the recipe.

pookabead66 - 09 April 2007 09:01 AM

thankfully my Mom listened to me and didn’t make me an Easter basket. Here I am, 38 years old, and I still get a basket! HAHAHA!

That made me laugh!! I am 37 years old and my mother-in-law still hides Easter eggs in the house and we all need to search and find “our” egg!!

I actually had two “Easter” meals… and had ham at both of them. The Easter ham is good for you as long as you keep the intake down to a half pound or less, right?? I had plenty of veggies… although they probably had extra butter or some type of cream sauce. Finally, I had just a little bit of the ultimate calorie killer… the cheesy potatoes!! Thankfully, I can easily turn down the desserts… so I don’t think I blew it too badly this weekend.