Last week, we made basil pesto and I had an epiphany: seaweed pesto! What a great way to get rid of my two remaining packages of kelp noodles! I have seen variations of pesto using roasted red peppers, mushrooms, butternut squash, etc... as the base, so why not seaweed?
I was watching Bill Green's Maine a month or so ago when I saw a story about a gentleman from Maine that was harvesting seaweed from the ocean, cutting it into thin strips, boiling and packaging it for sale as frozen kelp noodles. I was immediately intrigued and, as usual, waited several weeks to act on it.
Up until this past year, I was very adept at avoiding beets. My father would eat them out of a can while I grew up. I'm feeling queasy just thinking about it. A couple of years ago, my wife brought some home from the grocery store and the more-mature me decided to give them a try. I had learned by that point that you can't condemn a vegetable just because some people choose to eat it out of a... Oh boy. Would you believe he eats canned potatoes, too? Urp.
