Basil aroma fills my house: making pesto at home.

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Every year, I plant basil and collect its leaves before the plant blossoms. With the leaves, plus garlic and a good olive oil, I make pesto in the blender. Around this time of the year there are many chores that have to do with having enough goodies to eat during winter. It is now when I remember the books I read during my childhood written by Laura Ingalls. Those books, "the little house books" as I called them, were not only literature for children. They shoked in a very realistic way how the west of the US was conquered by people who settled there in homesteads. I am comfortable at my home and have never had the problems those people had. But I admire their capacity for work. I want to add that here, at mylot, we have some friends who sew patchwork quilts. My admiration for them!