So yesterday Aniimoni on tumblr somehow accidentally organised a potluck with this post: https://www.tumblr.com/z00lea/75740.....2?source=share
The whole thing ended up on a chained post by canadianno.

I've been continuously cooking this for the past week, in order to finish all the basil and beans from my mother's garden, so it was a no-brainer what I would bring to the potluck.

I'll write down the recipe I've been using, in case you're interested in trying it out:

Pesto alla genovese

Take about:

2 or 3 bushels of basil
a big clove of garlic
a handful of pine nuts
200 g of parmesan cheese
3 TS of olive oil
a pinch of salt
Now, tradition demands that you stomp all the ingredients in a morter, but 1) I don‘t have a big enough morter and 2) the sauce needed to be done soon, so I merely put it all in the mixer. And that should be it!

The rest of the noodles

Take per person:

100-125 g of pasta
1 potato
as many beans you can fit in the pot in order to make the stash you got a little bit smaller

Cut down the potatoes. The beans can be left mostly whole. Put the potatoes with some salt in a pot of water and get it to boiling temperature. Let it boil for about 10 min before you add the beans. Let it cook for five more minutes before you put the pasta in, then let it cook at the needed time. (I also add some herbs to the boiling water. Ligurians are some of the only italians that use borage in their food, so I put that there too) while the pasta cooks, take the amount of pesto needed, and add some of the cooking water to the sauce. Once all is cooked, take noodles, beans and potatoes out of the water and into the pesto. Add basil and parmesan to your tasting

(I‘m sure the ligurians will come for my head with this, but oh well!)

Enjoy!