{"id":84,"date":"2018-07-20T14:21:52","date_gmt":"2018-07-20T14:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/littlewoodsherbal.wordpress.com\/?p=84"},"modified":"2018-07-20T14:21:52","modified_gmt":"2018-07-20T14:21:52","slug":"recipe-holy-basil-pesto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/littlewoodsherbal.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/20\/recipe-holy-basil-pesto\/","title":{"rendered":"Recipe: Holy Basil Pesto"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>\"\"\u00a0For book club this month I read\u00a0Adaptogens: Herbs for Strength, Stamina, and Stress Relief by David Winston and Steven Maimes<\/a>, which was a pretty interested read. According to the authors, the three things that are key in an herb being considered an “adaptogen” is that it is 1) Tonic – can be taken daily long term without causing harm, 2) Have a non-specific response in the body, and 3) have a normalizing influence. Read… things that can be incorporated into your diet because they are generally considered food – like astragalus<\/a> in soup and holy basil <\/a>in… everything!<\/p>\n

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It’s mainly re-affirmed my love affair with Holy Basil, which is growing in a large leafy bush in my garden this summer.<\/p>\n

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Last month we decided we would continue our potluck style book club so I headed to the garden and harvested a bunch of holy basil to try my hand at making it into a pesto. I read as many blog posts and recipes on the topic as I could find, weirdly only about four… maybe my search terms were off.<\/p>\n

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As usual, I then tossed out the recipes and made up my own, because as Jason tells me it’s fairly against my nature to follow a recipe. It turned out pretty delicious and everyone’s eyes lit up when I said I had brought enough to share with book club goers and staff alike.<\/p>\n

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Holy Basil (Tulsi) Pesto<\/h2>\n