I LOVE PESTO! One of my most favorite things to make and freeze during the summer is lots of batches of pesto [I feel like I've written about this before?]. I used to do it in little tupperwares, but read about freezing them in thin, easily-thawable flat ziplocks and it's made it so easy. I also had a revelation last summer while working at that restaurant. There was an arugula-tarragon pesto dish that was so good, so pretty and obviously super-healthy: I immediately began to copy it and have a nice little supply in the freezer. So this week I tossed some thawed arugula-parsley-lemon-pinenut pesto with spaghetti noodles, a huge handful of pinenuts, kosher salt and a little grated mozzarella - Vera even liked it which was exciting because how else would I get her to eat arugula?? This was Thursday and I'm still thinking about how delicious it was.
Then last night I thawed some sage-walnut-parsley pesto for our pizza and it was sooooo good. Seriously amazing. The possibilities of pesto combinations are endless and so much fun :)
(sausage + mushrooms too for the manly man)