Birthday, surprise and Pesto recipe

On tuesday we had a birthday surprise party for muthu. He was really surprised, probably because his birthday was one month ago... Anyway we had a great time, and I cooked (amongst other kind of pastas) Pasta col Pesto. People there enjoyed it, and here you find the recipe:

Linguine al Pesto (five people)
You need:

• Basil, 2 cups of fresh leaves (if they are not tasty, don't go for it!).
• 100 gr. of Parmigiano Reggiano.
• 100 gr of Pecorino Romano (seasoned).
• 1/2 cup of extra virgin olive oil.
• 4 garlic cloves.
• 50 gr of pine nuts (if you don't find them no problem we can go without!)
• Suggested pasta: 500 gr. of Linguine (or Spaghetti) De Cecco. PLEASE DO NOT OVERCOOK!!! Al dente!!
  

First prepare the garlic: cut each piece in two and then remove the heart.
Then, with a food processor chop together the Parmigiano and the Pecorino Romano.
Then, chop the leaves of basil with some oil (the minimum necessary to allow the food processor to chop),
together with the pieces of garlic (and the pine nuts, if you have). Mix together the grated cheeses, the mixture leaves/oil/garlic(/pine nuts) and the remaining of the oil.
If it seems too dense you can add one spoon of cooking water, if it is too liquid you can grate in other cheese (both parmigiano and pecorino).

If you want to eat the real pesto you should go to Liguria, in Italy, and visit the restaurants Da O Vittorio and Lavinia's La Stalla.

Library way

Yesterday Muthu showed me the library way in new york. If you like books, enjoy the walk.

Blogger's block?

Do bloggers suffer of the writer's block? The one that in italian is called timore della pagina bianca (fear of the white page) and in french vertige de la page blanche (white sheet vertigo)?
An italian book, La notte dei blogger (the night of the bloggers), answers negatively, explaining that when you create a blog you already write something, and in this way you avoid the writer's block.
I don't think this is true.

In italian was "Pesto is our drug"...

... and, I have to admit, it sounded much better.