Linguine ai Pesto Recipe (Linguine mit Pesto Rezept)

I've never tried pesto before, because its green color always prevented me from wanting to eat it. But the recipe is in the cooking guide and it didn't need much ingredients, so I decided to cook it inspite of myself.

Although the recipe requires linguine, I was cooking for the whole family and my grandparents aren't good with the long noodles, so I went for penne.


Linguine ai Pesto for 5 (770kcal/potion):

500g Linguine
45 basil leafs
3 tbsp parmesan
3 tbsp pine nuts
3 garlic gloves
4 anchovies filets
150ml olive oil
salt and pepper to your taste
a food processor kitchen machine

1. Peel and ad squeeze the garlic.
2. Put basil leafs in the kitchen machine and mix. Add pine nuts and parmesan and mix. Add anchovies and garlic and mix. Add olive oil, a little salt and pepper and mix to a paste. Let stand aside in the machine. (Mine's in a bowl, because my food processor wasn't big enough. You can use the machine for mixing basil, nuts, garlic and anchovies. If it's too small for the oil, just put everything in a bowl and stir fast.)

3. Cook the linguine in a large pot with lots of water and a bit salt. Drain, then put back in the pot. Mix the pesto again, then add it to the noodles and stir well, so the noodles are coated. Taste with salt and pepper.
4. Arrange on a plate and grate a little parmesan over it.
5. Buon appetito!!

I've realized, I'm a little focused on the Italian cuisine ... hm...

Pizza Margherita

As planned on Sunday (Who needs some intelligent forward looking planning when you can think everything through in less than 24 hours?... not me!) I went for groceries yesterday to buy everything for Pizza Margherita - invented in 1889 for Queen Margherita to resemble the colours of the Italian flag.

The recipe told  me to get pizzadough, basil, mozzarella and tomatoes. I don't think you usually put fresh tomatoes on a pizza, but I wouldn't argue with the recipe.

What I got was also very delicious!

Recipe for 4 [400 kcal/person]:
400g pizza dough (I was lazy and bought mine)
100g tomato sauce (not in the recipe, but came with the dough so I was using it)
fresh basil (as much as you like)
400g tomatoes
160g mozzarella
Salt, Pepper (it's not in the recipe but you'll need it)

1. Depending on your dough and oven type (mine's electric), preheat the oven. 220°C usually is a good temperature.
2. Wash the tomatoes, cut them in half, remove the stem and cut into half moons.
3. Pat the mozzarella with a kitchen towel, then cut into 5mm cubes.
4. Spread the dough on a baking tray. Mine's rectangular, but of course you can take a round one.
5. Spread the tomatoe sauce evenly.

6. Lay on the tomatoes, mozarella and basil and cover the pizza evenly.

7. Now put the tray in your oven an bake until the dough is done and cripsy and the cheese is melted. In my oven at 220°C it took 17 minutes. When you buy dough, it usually says on the package how long you need to bake it.
8. When done, sprinkle salt and pepper to your taste. Cut into pieces and buon appetito!


Well, what can I say? That's not it. In the end, I had some left over tomatoes and mozzarella cheese. Luckily I'm smart enough, what else to do with it. Check the next post for more!