Three Bean Salad is one of the easiest salads ever! It comes together in just minutes. All you need are cooked beans plus a few dressing ingredients swiftly mixed. Voila! Flavourful herbs and filling ingredients create a marvelous side dish or lighter lunch. We enjoyed this salad right away, but the leftover portion was even better on the second day after the rich pesto flavours had … Continue reading Pesto-Dressed Three Bean Salad
Bright bites of sweet-and-salty goodness will beckon hungry party-goers to pick these up from your holiday platter–and then return for more. The green pesto spread features spinach, walnuts, and pecans, but skips the typical fresh basil or cilantro since they are not in season. Happily, I discovered that adding a few artichoke hearts to the mix rounds out the pesto’s taste perfectly. And the sparkling … Continue reading Pomegranate and Green Pesto Bites
Going nowhere all summer long can have some perks. If you have a garden, you don’t miss out on all the bounty appearing each day. If you don’t have your own garden, you can forage for berries or pick them at a farm. And perhaps you might win the garden lottery, and be asked to tend a friend’s garden while they are away, which is … Continue reading Garden Pesto Pasta Salad with Olives
Are there any savoury foods that don’t taste better with pesto? And pesto with olives? Not something I am ever likely to pass up. Today I had some leftover bread dough sitting in a bowl that needed a purpose. It was ever so easy to cut it into bread sticks, top the dough with cilantro pesto sauce and olives, and twist the dough strips just … Continue reading Pesto Olive Bread Twists
These petite hors d’Oeuvres are refreshing, flavorful (thanks to the citrus-spiked pesto), and so simple to make. Once you have pesto sauce made, you need only three ingredients. Another variation on this theme is to add some salad greens to create an entrée salad. The pesto sauce, with a little more olive oil added, serves as the salad dressing. Recipe for Pesto Shrimp Salad Bites … Continue reading Pesto Shrimp Salad Bites
When I see a compelling recipe, I tend to make some version of it as soon as I can (hence the tagline of this blog). The very next day day after seeing this pistachio pesto at 5 and Spice, I was happily blending up some aromatic green sauce of my own. Sadly, it had been more than a year since I had made pesto at … Continue reading Rice Vermicelli with Cilantro Pesto Sauce: A Gluten Free, Dairy Free Recipe
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