A friend of mine just gave me a lovely homemade batch -- it's half spinach, half basil, and the prettiest bright green I've ever seen. It's delicious just spread on a cracker!
I think I'll make some kind of a chicken/pesto/pasta dish tonight. But I'll probably have a full cup of it left after that, so I'm interested to hear your ideas.
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Eeeeew, basil and pine nuts-- two of my least favorite things.
Posted by Uprooted (Member # 8353) on :
All that ketchup and corned beef are ruining your taste buds! ;-)
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Shush. I've never liked basil in large doses (small are okay), and pine nuts taste like tree sap; I've hated them since before I went on my ketchup ram-- I mean, kick.
Posted by ludosti (Member # 1772) on :
Pesto is yummy with pasta. It's also good on pizza, spread on toast/bread, stirred into mashed potatoes, etc.
Silly kq - Straight basil pesto isn't the best, but spinach/basil or even parsley/basil pesto are good and pine nuts are awesome!
Posted by Uprooted (Member # 8353) on :
I love straight basil and pine nut pesto, but this is seriously delish w/ the spinach in it. I'm actually not sure if the nuts in it are pine nuts; I'll have to ask.
Straight pine nuts are kinda tree sappy, now that you mention it. But I love them toasted and in other things. Like this yummy tortellini & roasted veggie salad I sometimes make.
I'd probably like cilantro pesto, too -- I hated cilantro once upon a time, and I get why others don't like it, but I'm addicted to the stuff now.
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Part of it, for me, is that I have weird taste buds. Some things (very spicy food) don't bother me, but certain flavors (the bitter flavors in things like basil, cilantro, pine nuts, tannins especially) absolutely make me gag.
Posted by Glenn Arnold (Member # 3192) on :
Pine nuts taste like bacon grease.
I can't keep pesto in the house. My wife and daughter will eat scoops of it from the refrigerator.
How could anybody not like pesto?
Posted by Uprooted (Member # 8353) on :
Okay, so here's what I made tonight: I marinated boneless chicken breast chunks in a mix of Greek vinaigrette and Kraft sundried tomato vinaigrette dressings, then cooked them up in a cast iron skillet on the stove.
Sauteed onions, mushrooms, and minced garlic, then added some diced roma tomatoes. Stirred in lots of pesto and a little bit of half and half. Added chicken chunks to that.
Then I cooked some pasta that looks like penne rigate but is shorter and I can't spell it -- mostiacelli or something like that? Then added a bit of olive oil and lots of pesto and a shredded cheese mix (parmesan, romano, asiago) to that.
Put the pasta and chicken mix together with more cheese and some more diced tomatoes on top. Served with a green salad and Tuscan garlic bread. Man, that was some Good Eats, folks!!
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
quote:Originally posted by Glenn Arnold: Pine nuts taste like bacon grease.
I wouldn't know about that, but I agree that they're good.
Posted by Glenn Arnold (Member # 3192) on :
That reminds me of the old Priest and a Rabbi joke.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Are you going to tell it, or just comment on it? Posted by Glenn Arnold (Member # 3192) on :
Well...
So there's a priest and a rabbi travelling on a train. As the time goes by and they've been chatting the priest asks: "So I understand in your religion you're not allowed to eat pork?"
The rabbi says "yes, that's true."
Some time later the rabbi says to the priest, "I understand that as a Catholic priest you're not allowed to marry and enjoy the pleasures of a woman?"
The priest says, "yes, that's also true."
Some time goes by before the priest asks: "I just have to wonder, in all your life, haven't you just once tasted pork, just to see what you're missing?"
The rabbi says, "Well, yes, just once. But I have to wonder also, have you ever succumbed to temptation and enjoyed the pleasure of a woman?"
The priest says nothing, but acts a little sheepish. Gradually a slight smile appears and he nods his head, yes.
The rabbi says, "well....?"
The priest says: . . . . . . . . "It's better than pork."
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
quote:Originally posted by Glenn Arnold: Pine nuts taste like bacon grease.
They most decidedly do not, or I would be snarfing them down.
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