Chooks in the Garden and Pesto for the Winter

Summer is over folks. The time changed last night so we are heading in to the dreaded Winter. In preparation, I decided to pull up the garden since the sun doesn’t reach my garden in the colder months. What a treat for my two special and well-behaved chooks, Roxy and Suki. They got to scratch and dig in the garden while I quickly harvested the last of my basil.



What’s a girl to do with all this basil?



Make pesto.....

Now, a small container of store-bought pesto runs about $6. Most of you know that I don’t eat store-bought anything. I like to make almost everything from scratch. But for the sake of comparing prices, I will use the store bought pesto as an example.


In the end, it cost me $25 to make 13 lots of pesto. If I would have bought pesto from the store, it would have cost me about $80. Now one might think, do you really eat that much pesto? I would have to say NO but, I plan on it this year. I actually make a stuffed chicken thigh dish that uses pesto in the stuffing so, apparently, we will be eating this dish a lot this Winter.