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rtandon27

KC - enjoy your New Year's Eve!!!!!

'see' you next year!

:kisses3:

taxi73

What a tragedy about the pesto..
have a great NYE xxx

Karmacat

:wave::wave::wave: Happy New Year!

Hello all! Thanks for the good wishes, and returned to you, and everyone else, many times over :kisses3:

I had a lovely evening - met up with friends, friends of friends, and South African rellies of my business partner. I did leave early, as I thought I would, and because it was such a weird time, the train was practically empty (didn't stop it being loud tho )

And I'm starting 2012 without a hangover, and without that dizzy feeling that comes from not enough sleep :j:j:j

So, onwards and upwards with The Cunning Plan :j:j:j although what Taxi says is also true - lack of properly priced pesto is a tragedy

Ellidee

Happy New Year KC :kisses3:

By chance yesterday I saw a bit of Nigel Slater and he was making his version of pesto and I immediately thought of you !

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/food/2010/11/nigel-slaters-new-tricks-do-yo.shtml

Karmacat

:kisses3: and to you, honey!

Thanks for that linkie - I'll watch it as soon as Winter Wipeout finishes I'm loving the sound of that.

Its definitely a slow, indoor kind of day, apart from a walk after lunch, setting up for the future, very nice, very happy

Ellidee

Actually KC this is (hopefully) a better link - the first one didn't have any commentary

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00vt15w xx

Karmacat

Oh! Well, commentary is always good - downloading it now, if I watch direct it often freezes - I'm looking forward to this!

Right, must get going and do a little bit of pottering before I watch that

rtandon27

Happy 2012 KC!

Can't tell you how happy we are to hear you went out last night & enjoyed yourself! YEAH!!!:j:j

Karmacat wrote: »

lack of properly priced pesto is a tragedy

Do you have a Lid!'s near you? -They had both green & red pesto there yesterday - decent ingredients & very affordable! - also comes in glass jars not plastic pots! (this has become another selling point for me)

XOX
RT & OH

Karmacat

Hello RT, Happy New Year to you and OH!

Yep, there's a Lidl's in the next town - its only a 20 minute bus away, or a 10 minute train .... its the flavour thats so troubling, I'm such a perfectionist! The Sainsbo that I use here in this town, for instance, has pesto thats okay for about £1 - that won't break the bank, but believe me, finding that 60p Asda stuff took ages - my taste buds must be very out of sync with the norm :rotfl:

Anyway, I shall give Ellidee's/Nigel's recipe a go in spring, when I've grown some basil, and I *will* explore Lidl. I'll survive!

Nigel's recipe has him bashing the basil leaves in a wide based mortar - and what I didn't say about the trip to Asda is that I at long last bought a granite mortar and pestle. I've been ogling a ceramic or granite one for years, but always refused to buy one at £20, or second hand, just a quirk of mine. This one in Asda, its granite, pretty big (not as big as Nigel's but we can't have everything :D:D:D) and it was £6. I'm a very happy bunny.

Well, I can't put it off any longer. I'm going to have to use the new storage stuff I bought at tatco ... bit of a wander around on here first, I think.

turfy6

Happy New Year KC glad you had a good new years eve and all the very best for 2012:beer: