The great thing about a pesto is that it is so simple to make! I cant believe I dont make it more often! You take all the arugula, walnuts, garlic and parsley and put it in your blender or food processor

Give it a pulse a few times to chop everything down a little bit

Now you are going to pour in the oil while you hit the pulse button to make sure the pesto is mixing while the oil is added

Take off the lid and you are almost done! Scoop the pesto out and into a dish or a bowl or a jar

Cooking Tip** At this point if you wanted to can this you could

Or you can scoop it into an ice cube tray and freeze it! after about 6 hours when it is frozen just pop them out and put the pesto cubes in a zip lock bag or air tight container and freeze them! They will keep for a month! Then anytime you want to add it to a recipe you can pop it out and toss it in and kick anything you are making up a notch! Once it is thawed out you can stir in the Parmesan cheese

Now you want to add the grated Parmesan

At this point you need to test it and see how much salt you need to add

You can add a dash in when you are blending it but the Parmesan cheese is salty so I like to wait until after and if it needs a little bit then I add it in at the end

This way I can make sure it is not too salty or too bland

Once you have salted it and stirred it up you are done!