🌿✨ Preserving Basil the Easy Way! ✨🌿 One of my favorite (and easiest!) ways to preserve basil is by making olive oil basil cubes. Here’s how I do it: 1️⃣ Harvest fresh basil and chop it up - either by hand or with a food processor. 2️⃣ Place the chopped basil into ice cube trays. 3️⃣ Pour olive oil over the basil, filling each cube. 4️⃣ Pop the tray into the freezer for a few hours. Once frozen, just pop the cubes out and store them in a freezer-safe bag. Now you’ve got ready-to-use basil cube

Freezing basil in ice cube trays 🧊 Don’t tell the pesto… but this perhaps my *top* favorite way to preserve fresh basil from the garden! 🌿 It is SO quick and easy to do, and the resulting basil cubes are so versatile to use. We make tray after tray all summer, store the cubes in reusable freezer bags, and then toss them into the pan with sautéed veggies, eggs, soup, sauce and more all year long. No defrosting necessary. . I prefer to make mine with olive oil (which is pretty much always welcom

🌿 Basil doesn’t like the cold! Before chilly weather hits, make sure to harvest your basil so you don’t lose those fresh flavors. One of my favorite ways to preserve it is by making basil oil cubes - super quick, super easy, and they’ll keep all winter long in your freezer! Just blend fresh basil with olive oil, freeze in ice cube trays, and you’ve got ready-to-use bursts of flavor for soups, sauces, pastas, and more! Save the taste of summer now, and thank yourself later when you’re cooking wi