Don’t you love pesto sauce? Pesto is one of the great joys of Summer, making use of basil at the peak of the season, and it’s so versatile, you can use it as a pasta sauce, in soups, as a spread on ...
Pesto is not, as many think, the Italian for ‘paste’. It means to pound, grind or crush, from the Genoese pesta(re), and refers to the method of making the pesto, as we today call the sauce known by ...