Pot Pesto

Pot Pesto

3 cups chopped fresh basil
1 cup Ganja Olive Oil
1/2 cup pine nuts
2/3 cup grated Parmesan cheese
2 tablespoons minced garlic

Place the basil in a food processor. Pour in about 1 tablespoon of the oil, and blend basil into a paste. Gradually add pine nuts, Parmesan cheese, garlic and remaining oil. Continue to blend until smooth. Store in refrigerator or freeze.

Do not cook pesto. For best taste, allow the pesto to be warmed by the meal it's prepared with.

You can freeze the pesto in ice cube trays, then put in a bag to store in the freezer. Each cube is about 1/4 cup.

Try pesto...

• On pizza in place of or in addition to the red sauce
• Added to a cream sauce or Alfredo sauce
• Mixed with mayonnaise as a sandwich spread or burger topping
• Stirred into mashed potatoes
• Stirred into risotto
• Dolloped on soup
• Spread on crostini and topped with chopped tomatoes, smoked salmon, roasted red peppers or goat cheese
• Whisked into scrambled eggs or folded into omelets
• In pasta salads, potato salads, or salad dressings
• Mixed with cream cheese and spread on a bagel

Ganja Olive Oil

I made a batch of cannabis-infused olive oil yesterday. Really easy and really yummy!

4 cups extra virgin olive oil
1/2 ounce marijuana shake (or as much as you like for potentcy)

Heat on low in a crockpot for 2 hours to allow the THC to infuse the oil. Cool and strain through cheesecloth. Pour into a glass bottle and store in a cool dry place.

This oil can be used in any recipe in place of regular olive oil including salad dressings. Pour a little in a dish, add some fresh ground pepper, and dip pieces of fresh French bread in it.

I grew a lot of basil in my garden over the summer, so it's time to make pesto. I'll make two batches: one medicated using the ganja oil, one using regular EVOO. I'll freeze what I don't use now.

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A Little Something to Help You Get Started Thinking About Fibro Fog:

Many people with Fibromyalgia like to make jokes about Fibro Fog because it's often embarrassing and even frightening. A common scenario: You're having a conversation with someone when suddenly, in the middle of the sentence that's coming out of your mouth, your brain seems to turn itself off. Your mouth hangs open as you desperately search for what you were just saying two seconds ago. But it's no use. Where there once was a clear distinguishable thought in your head, there is nothing left but a vacuous black hole of nothingness. This kind of short-term memory loss is experienced by every Fibromyalgic.

"The wheel is turning, but the hamster left town," as Devin Starlanyl and Mary Ellen Copeland put it in their book, Fibromyalgia and Chronic Myofascial Pain: A Survival Manual, which devotes an entire chapter to Fibro Fog and other cognitive deficits. "You may spend hours every day trying to find various items, like your keys. (After a while, you may feel as though your mind is one of those misplaced items.) You may not recognize things when they are right in front of you but are not in their accustomed place, or when it's in a different package or form.

"Research at the University of Michigan has validated the reality of fibro fog. The researchers observed a similarity between neuroendocrine dysfunction in patients with FM and older but otherwise healthy people. They compared three groups of people: First, a group of people with FM. Second, a control group of healthy people who were similar to those with FM in age and educational background. And third, a group of healthy people with similar educational backgrounds as the others, but who were 20 years older than the other two groups. Because cognitive function begins to decrease, even in healthy people, as soon as adulthood is reached, the three groups were given various age-sensitive neuropsychological testing to see the extent to which Fibromyalgia affected cognitive dysfunction as compared to the normal cognitive loss caused by aging.

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