Recipe Corner: Pesto

We at Life at the condo like to eat and occasionally we run across recipes that are too good not to share. Welcome to our first installment of Recipe Corner, you should expect more to follow as we are out there, every day, eating.

This recipe comes from a cookbook Darr recently bought during a trip to Costco called The Silver Spoon. It's the definitive Italian cookbook. It is so easy to make you can actually prepare the pesto while the pasta is cooking. Well, this is a true statement if you are cooking dry pasta. It'd be a touch more difficult to accomplish this if you were using fresh pasta that cooks in under two minutes. That being said, it would be possible if all of the ingredients prep work was completed prior to placing the pasta in the boiling water...but I digress. Without further ado, here's the best pesto recipe we've found to date.

Ingredients:
25 fresh basil leaves
scant 1/2 cup extra virgin olive oil
1/3 pine nuts
1 cup Parmesan cheese, freshly grated
1/3 cup romano cheese, freshly grated
salt

Directions:
Put the basil leaves, olive oil, pine nuts, and a pinch of salt in a food processor. Process briefly at medium speed. Add the cheeses and process again. Drain pasta and place pesto in the pot. Pour the pasta on top of the pesto and mix to combine.

Serves 4