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Yay, managed to get one overdue garden produce/kitchen task done - basil pesto (the damn things were flowering desperately and might not have lasted another week without harvesting. I had to chuck out about 20g of spotty/yellowed leaves...).
I have no parmesan or nutritional yeast, so I peeled extra garlic and quickly shallow fried the cloves in oil, added that with toasted sunflower seeds and a bit of extra salt - verdict: it's delicious! I don't miss the cheese at all. Cheap and easy. Just put most of it in an ice cube tray for future re-use. Somehow it's ended up a lot darker green this time, but I don't mind!
The other overdue job I really need to do tomorrow, before it warms up again, is give the curry leaf plants a big haircut (timing is really pushing it). Gonna make a big batch of South Indian-style curry leaf sambol/chutney with coconut and fresh green chillies also from the balcony, then freeze most of it. Might hunt down some frozen coconut since I think my dessicated stuff is getting kind of old, and I want this to be a smashing sambol