If you've ever found yourself with leftover basil after making pesto or caprese salad, you're in for a treat. Adding fresh basil to your mayonnaise is the easiest upgrade you didn't know you needed.

Traditional Italian lasagna is great, but we can enhance it with easy additions. These upgrades add flavor, texture, and ...

Trader Joe's shoppers with an affinity for homemade pesto, Caprese salad or other dishes that utilize fresh basil should check their fridge for a newly recalled plastic clamshell container of the ...

In Italian cooking, fresh basil is not decoration. It is not just something you sprinkle on top at the last second to make a plate look pretty. Basil is the soul of the dish, and when it’s missing or ...

Fresh cut, imported basil is facing a recall over concerns it’s contaminated with cyclospora, a microscopic parasite that can cause an intestinal infection called cyclosporiasis if ingested.

Fresh cut basil leaves can be stored in a couple of different ways. The first is by keeping the basil in a bouquet (just like flowers!) and the second is using an air-tight container or zip-top bag.

Try propagating basil in both water and soil. Basil needs indirect light, clean water, and a humid environment to grow. Propagate basil between late spring and end of summer. If you're growing a ...