Pesto at home is the best.

Summer is the season of fresh herbs- you can get them at your garden, farmers market, even at supermarkets.

Have you made pesto?

If you had hand blender or food processor, it is super simple to make.

About two cups of basil leaves( no stems)

1/4 cup Parmesan, 1/4 cup pine nuts or other buttery taste nuts( walnuts , cashew), put all them together in the blender and add 1/2 cup olive oil slowly, like steady stream.Until nice coloration (below) and add heavy salt.

Use it not only for pasta- sandwiches, dressing, etc.Add it in mayo will make unique dipping sauce.

Until this coloration 

Potatoes and beans pasta with pesto.

Hummus, handy paste

Hummus is easy and handy, you can use it wide range of food - Don't buy it if you have a blender.You can make it without an effort.Also, once you made it, it will feed you for few days.

Sandwiches, wrap, dips and salad..

Ingredients are very simple, a small can of chick pea, 1clove garlic, 1/4 cup olive oil, 1/2 of a lemon juice, salt and pepper, blend all together with food blender.If you like it to be creamier, add tahini.You can put cayenne on top for the kick.Add oregano for more flavor. 

-Najib pita inspired wrap

Easy najib (like)cauliflower :

Half Cauliflower cut into chunks( the photo is purple cauliflower )

Salt +pepper

Olive oil 3Tbsp

Lemon juice : 1/2 lemon

Combine all together besides lemon juice in a bowl and put on a baking pan, bake it with 350F until they get golden colour.

For the wrap:

Pita 1piece

The easy Najib(cooked cauliflower ) or real najib, fried cauliflower  

Lettuce or green

Tomato 3mm slice : 3

or half cut cherry tomatoes : 4

Pickled beets thin sliced 3-4

Hummus 

Tahini and hot sauce :optional

Open the pita into half pieces, or you don't want to wrap, you can just open it like a pocket.

Put a piece of wrapping paper under the pitas, it will help to wrap.Put one pita on top of 1/4 of the other one.

Paste hummus and tahini on the bottom one, and put greens, tomatoes,pickles and najib, hot sauce.

Wrap it from the bottom,use paper to finish the wrap...(check it out how to wrap pitas on YouTube.)

Wrap it tighter, it will make taste better.