Yesh Li Blog: Homemade Pesto Pasta

Saturday, June 13, 2009

Homemade Pesto Pasta

Jill and Marissa decided to make homemade pasta the other night. Here are the wondrous results.

Beautiful fettucine.

A simple pesto sauce, some grated parmigiano, and voilà.

A simple, yet marvelous meal. A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and Thou...

Pam serving.

In honor of our Australian family and friends, we enjoyed a fine Cabernet Sauvignon from the Angove winery in the Coonawarra wine-producing region, southeast of Adelaide.

And for dessert, a delicious Baileys Frozen Russian.

Photos courtesy of NJ (Niece Jill)

4 comments:

Bonnie said...: An all around delicious dinner !!!

I'll have to tell Jill to get that recipe posted onto the beans blog. I don't have a pasta maker but one day I will and I'll be wanting to make this yumminess !!!

I'm not a big fan of Bailey's but I reckon that Frozen Russian looks amazing !! I'll have to give that a go too once summer comes ...; 1:09 AM
Marissa said...: Our food is really good!; 9:44 AM
Vickie Atencio said...: Can't wait to try my own as I bought a pasta machine recently, but don't want to get involved in a big mess and then get a call from the realtor's office to show our house. Will try it when we move. Can't wait to try the dessert, the bread and wine with it!; 8:09 PM
Tessa said...: WOW! It all looks so good. We appreciate the wine as much as the pasta. I can see where Bonnie gets her cuisine delights incentive from.
Terry votes for the wine but I vote for the Baileys' fantastic looking dessert(?). I'll invite myself to Bonnies' or have a go myself.; 10:41 PM

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Why Yesh Li Blog?

Why do I have a blog? Quite simply, I have a blog to share my favorite things with others. The right side of the blog has a long list of links to some of the places on the Internet that I visit often. In addition to sharing those with others, I often come here myself to find a quick link to where I am going.

Bonnie, our eldest, led the way into blogging with her Simple Beauty Blog, and later with her extremely popular Beans Blog. I decided I would give blogging a try and thought "I have a blog" might be a clever name, but in English it sounded rather lame, so I did it in Hebrew, a language I love more and more the more I learn it.

What does Yesh Li Blog mean?

We would translate (i.e. interpret) yesh li blog to mean "I have a blog" in English, but the literal Hebrew means "There is for (or to) me a blog." You cannot literally say "I have" something or other in Hebrew. It is always "there is for me," or "there is for you," or "there is for us," etc. Hebrew, the language of the Bible, is showing us that we are really stewards of what has been provided for us and for our use. Rather than private ownership, perhaps a better term for what we "own" would be private stewardship.

Languages have been my passion since at least the fourth grade, when I studied Spanish from a library book called Fun with Spanish. In high school, I was the rara avis that became enamored of Latin. In later U.S. Navy tours of duty in Spain, Italy, and Japan, we did our best to learn the local languages. Along the way, I studied some Russian and picked up some Greek by studying etymologies and some Chinese by studying Japanese writing systems.

My first introduction to Hebrew was in the early 1980s, when I took a correspondence course, but it was not until the past decade that my primary focus has been on this wondrous language. It has been deeply rewarding, and especially in the past few years since we met Ori, an amazing Israeli woman, who has become not only my primary Hebrew mentor but also our good friend. Moreover, the small group of people who meet weekly to study Torah in Hebrew in Boulder have become dear to us and enriched our lives greatly. Further, reading Jewish commentaries on the Web of the weekly Torah portions has deepened my own faith and opened up new understandings of the scriptures we share and of Christian writings based on those scriptures.

The pursuit of words has been an essential part of my life for many years (since birth?). Many things have changed in my life, but I don't see that part of it changing any time soon (until death?). Lehitraot! Shalom, Chaverim!