Why would anyone buy Pesto?

[PeggySioux]

I am so cross.

For 30 years I have thought that I hated pesto. Turns out I hate the nasty vinegary oily nasty yak that you can buy.

Whizzed up fresh basil, garlic, pine nuts and olive oil with parmesan is blardy lovely!

My god I have a lot of pesto to eat to make up for lost time.

its fab on a cheese and ham toastie

I like sacla pesto

and it keeps forever

Because cleaning the blender/food processor is a faff.

because we're lazy

obv

i like sacla

and i like twatrose's fresh one

god i love making pesto, whizz it up whilst the pasta's cooking. the whole family eats it happily & i feel like super-mum.

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Because to make it you need absolutely TONS of fresh basil ime.

And it is quicker to get it out of a jar - even if only 5 mins quicker, sometimes that's an important 5 mins.

i have made my own, when i grew my own basil
twas delicious.

too mean to actually buy the stuff

My kids love it,but I'll be buggered if i am going to al lthat faff every time so Sacla it is.

I just buy those little packs with pasta and pesto and pine nuts from M&S. My sons LOVE it (they are 6 and 2 1/2)

you can make it with coriander as well.

lovely!

The fresgh stuff is much nicer than the jars.

I invented my own pesto dressing - it is gorg and makes my boys eat tonnes of salad.

Yep - I am also lazy.

M&S one (in a jar - not the "fresh" version) or sacla do me fine.

share with the class, megha.

Me and dd had it tonight actually. I remember I think Franny once called it the middle class fish finger.

what is sacla?

Sacla bleurgh much prefer bertolli. We have made it. Actually cost more and did not keep.

Sacla at my house. Yummy yummy. In theory it keeps for ages but in practice it's gone pretty quickly!

Life Is Too Short To Make Pesto

yo've got to buy the proper stuff with no venegar - just pine nuts, basil, olive oil and cheese

but the stuff in jars is vile. i made some for my nephews once & they refused to eat it - "this isn't our kind of pesto." little buggers.

I buy it because I like it and it makes a very fast tea with spaghetti.