Tag Archives: basil

Basil tea

  Basil is delicious in pesto, but it is also a very beneficial plant; here it is simply used as a tea, to facilitate digestion. However, basil is reputed to help alleviate many conditions. Basil can help in the case of a cold, of respiratory disorders, or kidney problems, or mouth infections. Apparently, a person [...]
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Spaghetti on spaghetti

Ramadan Kareeem 2011! Spaghetti squash is a fun vegetable; you bake it and then split it open and carve out all these spaghetti-like strands; here the spaghetti squash is combined with some angel hair pasta and a labneh and basil sauce. INGREDIENTS: 1 Spaghetti squash 4 ounces of angel hair pasta or cappellini 1 ounce [...]
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Pasta salad

Heat is on, every day, unrelenting; I had been watering that basil bush hoping it would not succumb to the 100F plus temperatures; luckily it doubled in size in a few weeks and here is the result. A pasta salad coated with fresh basil pesto and garnished with a handful of green beans and some [...]
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