Cooking With Pesto

Last night Larissa and I had a friend over to eat dinner and watch the Wolverine movie. I made pasta with pesto.

Pasta with Pesto!
I forgot to take a picture until after we'd eaten...

It was the first time I’ve ever worked with pesto. I made the sauce out of a mixture of pesto and cream of celery soup. I mixed in half of a red pepper and a couple of chicken breasts.

We had spaghetti noodles on hand, but if I was planning this from scratch I’d naturally want to go with penne or something similar. Still, noodles are noodles, right?

Next time I think I’ll also increase the ratio of sauce to noodles. I found the flavour got hidden too much by the pasta. Maybe that’s because my usual experience with pesto is a Massive Pesto Overload. I haven’t yet found the happy pesto medium, I guess.

3 thoughts on “Cooking With Pesto”

  1. IMO you can’t skimp on the pesto. Pasta should be nice and green when you’re done. Expensive, yes, but worth it.

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