Basil Oil
We eat a lot of pasta in this household and I make my own passata sauce for the winter months. It seems a pity then not to carry on this theme and take further advantage of this wonderful abundant lush herb by making an oil that can be drizzled over pasta, pizza, used in salad dressings, used generally as a base to frying onions massaging into chicken - and the flavour ummh! Its all about flavour with me at the end of the day and I find the more I make of this the more I have to make. After all it is the simple things that have the most impact and take things to a whole new different level on the taste front. I make at least a couple of batches of this per year (I nearly always double up on the recipe when I am preparing this. I tend to stock pile the oil in advance usually when it is on offer so usually have several bottles to go at prior to making this] This is a nice way of making something simple when you don't have much time which wi...