basilless

Dinner at Earl’s on the roof - across from the concert stage. Somewhat mild and basilless Thai chicken salad.

2004 January 7, John T. Baldwin, Around the World in 40 Days, Chicago, Ill.: Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago, archived from the original on 12 Apr 2018, page 2

I have no idea how it happened, but spring 2007 found me and my kitchen garden completely basilless.

2008 June 29, Susan, “Purple Basil Pesto & the Easiest White Bean Appetizer Dip / Spread Recipe Ever”, in Farmgirl Fare, archived from the original on 03 Dec 2010

Basically, you're wilting the lettuce in a dead-simple broth whose flavor has been "bloomed" by a few spoons of basilless pesto. (Basil trumps lettuce.)

2009 July 5, Jeff Weinstein, “My First 'Out There' Recipe, or Why I Am Not Elizabeth David”, in Out There: Jeff Weinstein's Cultural Mixology (an ArtsJournal weblog), archived from the original on 13 Mar 2011

These orbital cultural pressures are what you would expect – this is a relatively low-self-esteem, ingredient-thin bit of Europe, hemmed in by other cultures with access to serious sunlight: it is melonless, basilless, oliveless.

2010, Simon Winder, “I’ll have some green sauce with that”, in Germania: A Personal History of Germans Ancient and Modern, London: Picador, →ISBN, chapter 1, page 33

I chop the basil and mix it with garlic, cheese, pine nuts, and olive oil until it becomes the pesto sauce my children love so much. […] We even freeze at least a dozen containers at the end of summer to see us through the long basilless winter.

2012, Mary DeTurris Poust, “The Work of Your Hands”, in Everyday Divine: A Catholic Guide to Active Spirituality, Indianapolis, Ind.: Alpha Books, →ISBN