Mar 01, 2006
I tried halving this recipe and ran into difficulties. In particular,
with half the material, after the initial blender pulse, all the material
-much more compact- now could lay beneath the blades. Additional blending
didn't do anything. I had to manually raise of the material and try to
blender again, but this achieved little because it quickly went below the
blades again, and in the end I was left with pesto with many practically
unchopped garlic and nuts. This is posted here as an unrated review to
warn others that before reducing the size of the recipe, think about the
size, shape, and abilities of your food processor/blender. (With more
material, I think that the convection in my blender would chop everything
without difficulty.)
—Mark P
