Mint Pesto?
May. 27th, 2021 12:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lydamorehouseYeah, mint pesto.
I was looking around for something savory to do with the mint I'd gotten in the CSA and I kept coming across the idea of a mint and pea pesto. After finally finding a recipe that contained everything I actually had around the house at the moment, I gave it a try for lunch. I used this recipe: https://culinaryginger.com/pea-mint-pesto/. I didn't have two cups of frozen peas, but I did have one. So, I cut the recipe in half, and ,as you can see from the picture below, that was plenty. I didn't have leeks (I would have, but I ended up putting them in chicken stock last night because they were starting to get a little wilted,) but figured supplementing some garlic chives would be fine? AND IT WAS.
THIS WAS WEIRDLY YUMMY.
Image: Weirdly delicious mint and pea pesto
I put the pesto over some pasta and added cubed fresh mozzarella (which turned out not to be all that fresh, so we took it right back out) and anyway, the meal itself was a surprise in that the combination of stuff really worked to make something zingy and savory.
In other far less fun news, I am taking Shawn into the doctor's today because she's been waking up with scarily dark urine. She'd had this problem before? But, we thought we'd fixed it by going off a particular drug that had this side effect. That was over a year ago and so it's disturbing that this is happening again. The only good news is that right now, the urine gets lighter as the day goes by, so hopefully it's not a sign of blood in the urine or anything like that. We'll see. Cross fingers for us.
At least she was able to get an appointment with her regular doctor. A trip to Urgent Care is never any fun. Especially on a cold, rainy day like today.
UPDATE so that no one worries: Shawn's doctor says it's asymptomatic hematuria, which doesn't mean much since that means that, yes, there is blood in the urine, but no other symptoms. We are waiting on blood work, which should let the doctor determine where to send her next--a urologist or a kidney specialist or what. But, at least we got the, "Well, unless you have other symptoms, you're probably okay??" Thing is, Shawn is on blood thinners, so it's possible that a mild irritation in her urethra or some such is much more significant because she just doesn't stop bleeding easily. Fingers crossed, I guess?
I was looking around for something savory to do with the mint I'd gotten in the CSA and I kept coming across the idea of a mint and pea pesto. After finally finding a recipe that contained everything I actually had around the house at the moment, I gave it a try for lunch. I used this recipe: https://culinaryginger.com/pea-mint-pesto/. I didn't have two cups of frozen peas, but I did have one. So, I cut the recipe in half, and ,as you can see from the picture below, that was plenty. I didn't have leeks (I would have, but I ended up putting them in chicken stock last night because they were starting to get a little wilted,) but figured supplementing some garlic chives would be fine? AND IT WAS.
THIS WAS WEIRDLY YUMMY.
Image: Weirdly delicious mint and pea pesto
I put the pesto over some pasta and added cubed fresh mozzarella (which turned out not to be all that fresh, so we took it right back out) and anyway, the meal itself was a surprise in that the combination of stuff really worked to make something zingy and savory.
In other far less fun news, I am taking Shawn into the doctor's today because she's been waking up with scarily dark urine. She'd had this problem before? But, we thought we'd fixed it by going off a particular drug that had this side effect. That was over a year ago and so it's disturbing that this is happening again. The only good news is that right now, the urine gets lighter as the day goes by, so hopefully it's not a sign of blood in the urine or anything like that. We'll see. Cross fingers for us.
At least she was able to get an appointment with her regular doctor. A trip to Urgent Care is never any fun. Especially on a cold, rainy day like today.
UPDATE so that no one worries: Shawn's doctor says it's asymptomatic hematuria, which doesn't mean much since that means that, yes, there is blood in the urine, but no other symptoms. We are waiting on blood work, which should let the doctor determine where to send her next--a urologist or a kidney specialist or what. But, at least we got the, "Well, unless you have other symptoms, you're probably okay??" Thing is, Shawn is on blood thinners, so it's possible that a mild irritation in her urethra or some such is much more significant because she just doesn't stop bleeding easily. Fingers crossed, I guess?