Pesto

MK's all-time favourite dish is so definitely pasta with Pesto. Today it is reunion with the kids and so they each get to choose what to have for dinner once. Predictably MK chooses Pesto, but before this she beats T in a game of Middle-earth as she manages to sneak Frodo into Mordor where he drops the master ring into Mount Doom – just in the nick of time.

The pesto is routine for T to make due to the umpteenth time MK has selected it. Take a large handful of fresh basil leaves and rinse. Roast 30gr of  pine nuts until light brown. Mix both with salt, grated parmesan cheese, olive oil and two cloves of fresh garlic. Today we use the blender, as T's mortar is just a little bit too small for a larger portion of pesto.



With the pasta pesto we drink some Sancerre La Chantellenie 2009 from Joseph Mellot (7,3/10)

For the secondo we have lamb chops with fennel and a green salad with tomatoes. The lamb chops and fennel are fried on a pan with oil and fresh rosemary and garlic. Simple but absolutely splendid. We open a bottle of René Ratti's Barolo Marcenasco 2000 (9/10) and it is also excellent.















The kids have left the table after pesto but return when they hear our exclamations and in the end we have to give them much of our otherwise excellent secondo (9/10) that together with the wine (9,3/10) was a perfect start to the weekend.