Huh, on the computer I work on, the pix looked fine, but on the one I use in my husbands office, they were jumbled up on top of each other. I don’t understand how that happens.
No, WP, that was NiceDeb you were talking to (I think). It’s just that in many ways ND and I are very similar.
I pick each leaf individually (the ones I just picked were about 3″ long), wash them 3 times, run them through the salad spinner and put them in my food processor and add enough very good olive oil to make a paste. Then I fill the small sandwich bags and put those bags in freezer bags. When I want to use it, I let it defrost, and add chopped pine nuts. One small bag will do a whole meal. Nummy.
I pick each leaf individually
Watching cooking shows where jamie whatsisface (naked chef) and shit just rip leaves off of 8 or 20 densely packed basil plants pisses me off.
The stem’s taste like rotten spinach and the smaller leaves taste like anise, minus the good flavor.
It’s better to pick and chose from a nicely maintained plant.
Hey Nice Deb, I just figured out how to change my wordpress display name from cuffymeigs to Cuffy Meigs. Go to your Account and edit your Profile if you want your standard Nice Deb instead of nicedeb. Justsayin, er, just sayin.
Nice Deb 
My, what lovely flowers!
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Why, thank you!
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Very pretty, ND. Now go kick a senator.
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your pics are goobered up.
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They look fine to ME. (Besides being a little goobered up).
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My basil is doing well, though I will probably still end up with a pretty green plant, that produces nothing edible.
AGAIN!
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Huh, on the computer I work on, the pix looked fine, but on the one I use in my husbands office, they were jumbled up on top of each other. I don’t understand how that happens.
But I took one of the pix out, and that helped.
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WP, how can you have a basil plant that doesn’t have leaves you can eat?
I’ve been using my basil for over a month, now.
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Deb, we always have so much basil that I have to freeze it. My pesto is delicious.
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As WP would say…NUMMY!
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Small leave’s tend to be bitter.
I prefer mature leaves to be used in a pesto.
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Oh, Shit Patty, I thought I had the basil discussion with ND, not you.
Sorry about that, I know you told me you would pick individual leaves and freeze them.
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No, WP, that was NiceDeb you were talking to (I think). It’s just that in many ways ND and I are very similar.
I pick each leaf individually (the ones I just picked were about 3″ long), wash them 3 times, run them through the salad spinner and put them in my food processor and add enough very good olive oil to make a paste. Then I fill the small sandwich bags and put those bags in freezer bags. When I want to use it, I let it defrost, and add chopped pine nuts. One small bag will do a whole meal. Nummy.
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Yeah, anything less than an inch and a half tend to be bitter. The larger leaves have a little more sweetness to them.
And I was thinking about a 3 day tirade I had at aces, so it could have been either of you.
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I pick each leaf individually
Watching cooking shows where jamie whatsisface (naked chef) and shit just rip leaves off of 8 or 20 densely packed basil plants pisses me off.
The stem’s taste like rotten spinach and the smaller leaves taste like anise, minus the good flavor.
It’s better to pick and chose from a nicely maintained plant.
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I will probably still end up with a pretty green plant, that produces nothing edible.
must I really say anything? ND lives on Copperhead Road…
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John Lee?
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Hey Nice Deb, I just figured out how to change my wordpress display name from cuffymeigs to Cuffy Meigs. Go to your Account and edit your Profile if you want your standard Nice Deb instead of nicedeb. Justsayin, er, just sayin.
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What am I doing in this handbasket? And where are we going?
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You’re going to hell, dipshit, like I said.
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Cuffy, I went to my dashboard and tried to figure out how to fix it….it’s not worth the trouble….I’ll just stay nicedeb.
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