Robb + Jessie Married & in the Badger State
Pesto, revisited.
Remember how I was telling you about the delicious pesto Robb and I devoured last month? Well, I have good news…
We have basil!
Which means … pesto!
This time we added some fresh tomatoes from the garden, and chicken.
As, per usual, the recipe is from Joy of Cooking. You can’t beat that. This winter, I am looking forward to change things up a bit with arugula or spinach replacing some/all of the basil, as well as walnuts replacing the expensive pine nuts. Delicious.
What has happened in the past 30 days?
Wow. August has been busy. The biggest event was going home for the first time since our wedding.
And, it was quite fitting to go home for our friends’ wedding. It is such a blessing to see our friends getting married, and it is quite nice to have more married friends to share this whole new phase of life with.
August in Seattle is what is known as “California Sucker Days” because the skies are blue, except the occassional day of showers, the Mountain is always “out” and the temperature never rises much above 75ºF. Lovely.
Except, we did get the more-than-usual rain showers, but I loved being able to sit outside as the sun set and not be bit my mosquitos. And what is a trip home without getting stuck on 520 West Bound at 5pm?
Did I mention how busy we were? Honestly, our trip home consisted of seeing all of our friends and family and driving in a huge triangle from Seattle to Ellensburg to Fish Lake and back home. When we got back to Madison, we slept. I have never taken quite so many naps.
We didn’t spend all of August in Seattle, although that would have been nice; the rest of the month has been rather low key. Work, coffee with friends, cooking, gardening, running, and such. We are now gearing up for school again. And planning our winter vacation (San Diego - here we come!).
I know we’ve left you hanging, waiting to hear what has been going on in our lives, but seriously? We have just been living. Oh yes, and watching the Olympics. That has entirely consumed our free time. Sorry. I hope you can forgive us. I’ll be posting some of our recent gardening-expeditions soon.
Stay tuned!