Pesto and Burger Sandwich

As a gardener, I like to cook foods for my family with the plants, herbs and vegetables from my garden.

PESTO

This is the version of my pesto. Maybe this is the easiest way and you can also try my recipe. I guarantee this is delicious and easy.

I first cook the pasta.

While cooking the pasta, i went to my garden to gather some basil leaves. It is easy to raise basil plant. Buy seeds and just plant it. No other special things required.
In the coming days, you will see them growing. And as the time passed, you will also have basil for your dishes.

There are other variety of basil. Mine is Sweet Basil.

I gather some basil. I included some stem cause I don't want to grow tall my basil plant. I want them to grow bushy.

I only use the leaves. I don't feel to eat hard stem on my pesto. For some, they also include the stems. They just use blender to crush them.
But for my recipe, I did not use blender. I just use knife to chop them finely.

This is the chopped sweet basil.

Instead of olive oil, I'm using margarine for my recipe. Butter is fine but I prefer this brand cause this is creamy. I bought it at Alfa Mart (Philippines) and it is cheap and delicious.

And after the pasta is cooked. I now arrange our pesto.

Don't rinse the pasta. We need it still hot.

While pasta is still hot, put some margarine or butter on the middle.
It will eventually melts and mixed to our pasta.

Then I sprinkled some crushed sweet basil. The amount is up to you. Mine is I just sprinkled not much. I can still adds some if I'm still not satisfied while eating eat later.

I also add salt and black pepper.
I am a pepper man. I like my foods to have much black pepper.

Then I added grated cheese.
And our peato is ready to eat.
Is that easy?

But wait, our pesto is not complete if there is no burger sandwich on its side.

BURGER SANDWICH

First, let's prepare the melted cheese. I use ordinary cheese bar.
The ratio is 2:1
2 cheese : 1 water.

Put cheese and water on blender and blend it.

And spread it on our bread.

I baked then on over for 5 minutes at 180 degrees celcius.

While waiting, I cooked the burger.

And now let's prepare the upper and lower part of our sandwich.

In pan with low heat, I put small amount of butter.

Then I put the bread. The bread will absorb the melted butter and eventually will be slightly burnt.

This is perfect. A golden brown.
And I did it only on 1 side.

I put some mayonnaise.

And added the burger.

This is our melted cheese came from the oven. And this is our middle layer of our sandwich.

Then I added some sliced tomatoes.

Then I added out fresh lettuce.
This lettuce is my own harvest on my garden. If you want to read my blog about my mini lettuce garden, here's the link to it:

@deythedevil/mini-lettuce-garden-from-recycled-soda-bottles

You will be amazed to see the giant lettuce I raised.