Aimalohi

Rhubarb Drink

Apologies; I am still not sewing (no time) and have been behind with writing posts.  This is just a quick one to share a nice recipe for rhubarb drink (tried and tested) with you.  It tasted really fresh and good so had to share it. 

Ingredients for ca 500 mls 

500g rhubarb 

400g sugar 

1 lemon 

200 ml water 

1. Wash rhubarb and chop into small (ca 4 cm) pieces
2. Add water and sugar to a pot and bring to the boil, stirring occasionally. 
3. Add rhubarb and lemon juice and simmer for 20 mins, stirring occasionally 
4. Strain mixture through a sieve and transfer into a tightly sealed bottle. 
5. Once cool, store in the fridge Serving: Dilute to taste with sparking water (or lemonade or sekt) and serve chilled with ice.

Pesto

I swear, once you have tasted homemade pesto, you will never buy shop-made again. Here it goes:

40 g basil leaves
Handful of pine nuts
1 clove of garlic
Olive oil
Grated parmesan
Salt

Place the basil, pine nuts and salt in a food processor and pulse. Transfer into a glass jar, add the crushed garlic, oil and parmesan and mix thoroughly.

It tastes wonderful with orecchiette pasta and mushrooms as shown below.