Two of the plants in my garden that already looked like they were starting to feel the hurt from the cold weather were my basil and pineapple sage. The sage is now hanging to dry in front of a window, from the adjustment wire of our blinds. We'll use the dried sage as a cooking herb, or burn it to purify the house, or something. or maybe it will just hang out in a vase and look and smell pretty. Maybe I'll embed it into fancy homemade candles (this last option is unlikely). Regardless, we will find a use for it.
A good use for the basil was pretty obvious. We made pesto. The other pieces of the equation (olive oil, nuts, salt, garlic) already exist in our kitchen in quantity, so we just pulled all the basil leaves off the main stem, piled/poured everything into Baum's extremely cool blender and hit "liquefy".
It turned out quite well - as things loaded with garlic, olive oil and salt tend to do.
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