Thai Basil Pecan Pesto

January 26, 2012 By Leanne Vogel July 1, 2015

Kevin got a new photography toy! They call it a beauty dish. It’s supposed to distribute light perfectly across the model you’re shooting. [source] Don’t let the name of the product fool you, it will not drastically improve the beauty of your subject. Especially if that subject just started up with spin classes after a 3 month hiatus, is busy getting ready for her trip to India, and just completed a 16 hour work day. (pretty sure I was in the middle of a sneeze in the third picture. So attractive, but so totally me) Then we moved on to playing around with his wireless triggerinig system… Pebbles was brought into the mix too. Recommendation: your model should be an actual model. Oh, and their retinas should be stronger than the average human. Those lights burn, baby! Once I recovered from the trauma of chasing blue honeycomb shapes around with my eyes, I became hungry and skipped off to the kitchen; yes, literally skipped, to create something I’d never attempted before. Do you ever get an overly creative recipe idea and just run with it without doing any research? Do they ever turn out right? Mine don’t. Ever. Case and point – chia butter. I thought it was a good idea, too! But combining chia and honey in a food processor will break the motor and result in the stickiest seed butter you’ve ever seen. Or there were the flax cupcakes… Don’t let the pretty pictures fool you as they did me. Replacing the flour in a recipe with ground flax seed will give you the blandest cupcakes known to man. Thankfully the cream cheese icing was delicious. In my defense, not all of my creative ideas have been a total bust. I combined pureed pumpkin and coconut butter randomly and ended up with the best no bake treat I’ve ever made… but I digress. So what had me skipping to the kitchen? A savory coconut flour pizza crust! It was going to be epic. High in protein, fiber, thin, crunchy and perfect. It was thin… but far from perfect. It was mushy, too sweet, burnt and tasted horrible. I couldn’t bring myself to throw out the whole pizza, so I scraped off the toppings, added it to a bowl of greens and enjoyed a pesto and shrimp salad instead. There were little pieces of coconut crust in the mix, sort of like soggy croutons at the bottom of an old salad. Mmmm… Thankfully the Thai basil pesto I’d whipped up for the sauce of the pizza ended up stealing the show, making my evening in the kitchen worth it’s while. View Nutritional Information (once on page scroll down) Any ideas on what I should do with all the leftover pesto?

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