Food is the great universal topic. Go anywhere and talk with just about anyone and know that after pleasantries are exchanged, the conversation will almost always get around to food..eating it, buying it, preparing it. We love to talk about the parties we've attended, bar-b-ques we've hosted, dinners we've made, the desserts we've savored and the recipes we've mastered. I think we are lucky in that our conversations always come back to food in some capacity or another. It's always best when food is shared, both across the table and with our words. Come..let's share the bounty! Cooks talk!

Monday, May 18, 2009

Pesto craze!

I must admit I am new to the pesto craze. Maybe that craze has passed, I don't know, but I do know that I have a basil connection this summer. I have two young entreprenuers "on staff" who are raising my crop as I write. From what I can tell the plants are growing like gangbusters, which is much faster than mine, since my seeds are still in their little package. Next year, perhaps?

Nevertheless I never thought of pesto as something green, something nutty, with a bit of oil and a lot of cheese. Maybe this year I will make some Mexican equivalent of the fabled pesto recipe. Dude up some fried tortilla strips in a sort of green chili/cilantro/queso fresco/almond sauce. All that and bit of olive oil, too, and I think I see a hit. Marinade some fish in that, or spoon it over some freshly fried rellenos. Gilding the lilly? I think not! As a matter of fact I see this as being the start of something big! Every man's got to have a jones, and next year maybe I will write about mine as well! Well, so long as it's about pesto!

Cooks Talk!

NY Times article on one woman's pesto jones:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/20/dining/20appe.html?hpw
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