pesto~ish (aka the ish post)

Life is sometimes too busy to cook let alone to post about food on a blog that I never plan on making a living with.  Between working weekends and sleep writing has been far from my list of important things to take care of.. sadly it has taken its place long after do laundry and organize shoes.  Luckily I do still find the time to eat and occasionally make something from scratch.  This week I was gifted green tomatoes from someones garden.  I am not talented at frying things; so fried green tomatoes was out.  For those that have not had green tomatoes before they are tart and very hard when not cooked and I was not sure I felt adventurous enough to make some type of fresh salad that could potentially be too crunchy to eat.  After debating on what to do with these pretty green things I decided that roasting them and making some sort of sauce sounded like the way to go.  Thus began the story of the birth of Green Tomato Pesto Spread...




Green Tomato Pesto~ish Spread

Ingredients:
5 small/med green tomatoes or two large green tomatoes
Fresh Basil 1/4 cup
1/4 cup roasted Nuts of choice (I like pine nuts, pistachios or almonds)
1-3 pinches of Red chili flakes if you like a little kick
Garlic 3-6 cloves (just remember how approachable do you want to be after consuming)
Parmesan cheese 1/4 cup~ish or more (cheese is optional if you want to go for vegan)
Olive oil 1/4 cup~ish or more
Salt to taste.

Directions:
Cut green tomatoes in half and roll halves in olive oil, salt and red chili pepper. Roast green tomatoes for 30-60 min can also roast garlic for more roasty goodness it also mellows out the unkissable factor.

While tomatoes are roasting in the oven toast up nuts in a pan till golden brown. To pan roast nuts turn burner on low/med-low occasionally stirring till golden brown color begins to show on nuts.  Roasting nuts is not 100% necessary but it's a nice touch. 

Once done place all ingredients into blender. Blend all ingredients. Add more cheese to mellow out the tartness if desired, and/or add more oil to thin the spread to desired consistency.