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Pickles & Pesto: How to Make Yummy Summer Recipes from your Garden

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Summertime is the perfect time to makes pickles and pesto, helping use up all the cucumbers and basil your garden should be producing now.

Plus, we thought you might like to make a nice ratatouille and use up some of your garden’s tomatoes, zucchini, bell peppers and basil.

Here are some of our favorite recipes here at Weston Nurseries.

Bobby Flay’s Dill Pickle recipe:
https://www.foodandwine.com/recipes/dill-pickles
Martha Stewart’s Basic Pesto recipe:
https://www.marthastewart.com/314321/basic-basil-pesto
Gourmet Magazine’s Ratatouille recipe:
https://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/ratatouille-12164

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