I don't like pesto

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it tastes horrible.

― rainy, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

do you like it? You probably do, everyone except me seems to be mad about it.

― rainy, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

maybe you're only pretending to like it, in the interests of swankiness.

― rainy, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I love pesto!!

Is it just the green pesto that you hate or is it all kinds?

― davel, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i like saclas olive & tomato

― gareth, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

vegan pesto is yum but in small quantities as the taste is v concentrated (regular pesto has cheese in i mean WHAT?!) the vegan stuff has a lot more nuts in and has a pleasing texture as well.

― katie, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I particularly dislike the green pesto, but I just remembered I also hate sundried tomatoes. it's annoying because, they look so good and they seem convenient, you know you can just stir it in and all. But the taste, it's strange and bad.

― rainy, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I used to hate pesto when I first had it, but then I started to get these Italian salad rolls which had pesto in and I loved them so I started experimenting with pesto and now I love it. The same goes for olives I used to hate them now I love them.

― davel, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

rainy perhaps your mouth is broken?

(except some pesto = soap surely...)

― mark s, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Getting on a culinary high horse for a second, there is no such thing as red pesto. Pesto is Basil, Pecorino, Parmegiano, pinenuts, seasoning and oil. Anything else is not pesto.

― Matt, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I feel so alone with my pesto hatred.

― rainy, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

haha i grew basil for a while, but very quickly it had the consistency of a polystyrene plate and tasted like fairly liquid

― mark s, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

FAIRY!! (of "the hands that do dishes can feel soft as yr face" fame)

― mark s, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

but fresh basil on tomatoes on toast is nice. mark maybe your thumb is broken?

― rainy, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

this year it is in throbbingly viridian health: i even found a vegan way to kill the greenfly = LADYBIRD LARVAE!! they are cute and grey and crawly and have giant ganshing jaws (if you are teenytiny), and they prefer the thyme plants for the nice smell, but if you make a bridge of twigs they march across to the lenten rose for hideous elevenses

my mind is doing well this year, but it always suddenly goes ill

― mark s, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

haha that was meant to say "mint"!!

― mark s, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I was wondering.

― Matt, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

haha mark s! I knew you meant mint, though.

― rainy, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

My favorite color as a toddler was green so I try to get along with pesto.

― Honda, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Mark have you got any other vegan ways of getting rid of garden pests, my rocket has been ravaged by slugs and I need help!

― davel, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

put beakers in the ground and fill them with BEER! the slugs will go for the beer and die happy, whilst leaving your rocket alone. allegedly.

― katie, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

davel my sistrah was told by a friend that if you boil a lot of eggs (ok not very vegan i spose) and crumble up the shells very small and scatter this round the plants you wish to protect, it acts like very pointy toxic gravel to their tummies and they won't cross it!!

she has a big garden tho, and cannot afford eggs in the necessary quantity, so she just plucks them up and tosses them over the fence into the garden next door, which is full of kids' rusty bikes with grass growing thru the spokes

― mark s, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

feed the garden pests pesto.

― rainy, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Actually I've not had pesto for ages. I used to absolutely love it, then I got some dud pesto which was far too oily and gritty and not at all nice and haven't felt the urge to buy any since... there is however, a very nice looking deli down the road from our house so I might rock down there and see if they have nice fresh homemade pesto (with lots of pine nuts)!!! KRIKEY though, pine nuts are expensive innit? And they are only things to 'toss' into other dishes mostly?!

I need to find a nice recipe for a creamy pasta sauce actually, as I am ending my LOVELY wholemeal pasta and am about to embark on the PASTA OF HEAVEN - parpadelle! I am obsessed with parpadelle parisienne at dodgy cheapo Italian greasy spoon and I MUST RECREATE THIS AT HOME! It is probably made from monkey chews or something though hur hur. Anyone got any nice pasta sauce recipes? I don't think a tomatoey goo is quite what I want with my parpadelle...

K-blimey, I'm hungry.

― Sarah, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

rainy, I do not like pesto, either. It tastes like grass clippings.

― felicity, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

pesto's great - especially with big peices of pine nut in, basil with tomatoes is fantastic - i put basil in a bacon sandwich and it was the best id ever eaten

dave - my ma nicks the dregs from my lager to kill thre slugs - it really works - or failing that my sister stamps on them - or pours salt on them - sadistic yes but then rocket is tasty

if you want to borrow her im sure it would be ok

― born clippy, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I like pesto flavoured chips, but not actual pesto because I used to work in a deli and the smell of it made me think of work which I hated. And horrible ponsonby yuppies. Same thing with sundried everything and coleslaw.

― Elisabeth, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i like it instead of tomato sauce on pizza

― anthony, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Sarah, try yr pasta sauce free, just toss it with a bit of chilli oil and stir in whatever nice stuff you've fried to go with it.
Alternatively some good wholegrain mustard stirred in = instant sauce yum
Further alternative, to make stuff good and gooey cook some poatatoes in the same pan as the pasta, the starch they release helps whatever sauce stick to it.

― Matt, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

When making pesto use hazel nuts as well as pine nuts, but dont grind them up too small, it tastes really good! Altenatively just add hazel nuts to ready made pesto! Clippy do you mean I can borrow your mum or sister, or do they come as a set!

― davel, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't think I like Pesto. I certainly don't like the name, it sounds like the sort of name they give to Washing Powder.

― jel --, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

well i think my ma would trust you so just my lil sis - i'll get her wellies out

― born clippy, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

KRIKEY though, pine nuts are expensive innit?

my mum is obsessed with this fact!! she used to be able to get them v cheap at a deli in bath, but now she lives in france she has to pay proper prices and consquently is always asking everyone she knows to look out for them on the cheap.

nice pasta recipes - i know millions, it's what i eat six days out of seven - will write more about them after lunch, but for now i'll just mention the savoy cabbage + lardon pasta that my mum did last night - it sounds so wrong but is actually amazing. also the parma ham + sundried tomatoes + cream that i cooked last week. and butternut squash/blue cheese/cream, that's amazing. and carbonarra is still my all-time fave 10min supper. and... and i have to go and eat lunch now.

― toby, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

toby - start a new pasta recipe thread - they sound great - parma ham - YES

― born clippy, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

yeah, I reckon I don't like pesto. but I don't like a lot of foods.

― RJG, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Rainy, I don't like pesto either. Actually I was thinking about my dislike of it only yesterday so this thread is a bit of a coincidence. I was thinking about how pesto seemed to have had its day, and how glad I was.

Now it's tortilla wraps everywhere, and I don't like them either (though I love Mexican food.) The wraps you get here are mainly filled with horrible rubbery chicken which has surprise bits of gristly nerve left in it, or clumpy tinned salmon that falls out all over your lap. I never eat them.

I wonder what they'll be feeding us next.

― Nancy Drew, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oooh I would really love to go and get the ingredients at lunchtime but I guess I will have to go after work now!! Oh well! They do sound extremely nice though, perhaps it's time for another ILE recipe swap!

― Sarah, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

liver and bacon is the new fig and mozarella salad

― born clippy, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Apart from Dave(l), how come no-one else has mentioned making the stuff? It's dead easy, if not incredibly cheap (though I can't see hoew it can be much dearer than bought stuff), and you can mix and match ingredients to your heart's content.

Pine nuts are quite expensive, but what you need is an ex-girlfriend to go to a cash-and-carry warehouse and bring you back a kilo of the fuckers :)

Basil so rules. Last time I made pesto, I kept the runt shoots of supermarket-bought basil and they're now these verdant, tall, woody things which make my kitchen smell great! What's not to love?

― Mark C, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

If you buy basil in pots from supermarkets they always have loads of plants that have been "forced" so the roots are really cramped as a result they do not grow very well and have a tendancy to die. What I do is re-pot them, one pot from a supermarket can be split up into about five pots, the Basil will then grow really well and you will be able to get fresh basil for ages and ages. The same goes for all supermarket herbs, especially Corriander and Dill.

― davel, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

How is killing things at all vegan?

I saw 16 whole separate bunnies on the way home.

― Graham, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't want to kill thing I just want to deter them from eating stuff that I want to eat.

― davel, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

graham i followed you home and now there are 32 halved separate bunnies!!

― mark s, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Mark, post how you make yr own home made pesto!

― Sarah, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

No don't, our flatmate sometimes makes it in MY blender and it bugs me as a) he doesn't always clean the blender out properly and b) it is an extremely overpowering smell which makes everything in the entire house stink of basil & stuff (though I like the smell of basil in some circumstances I do not want my entire house to smell of it). In a similar vein he currently has the world's pongiest camembert making everything in our fridge taste of whiffy cheese.

― Emma, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

How come no-one else has mentioned making the stuff

I rather thought I had.

― Matt, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Pesto is great on pizza but not so great on noodles.

― Maria, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

TOBY GEE you pimms-addled fool, get on the recipe sharing thread and put those pasta sauce recipes there!

― katie, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Pesto - whenever I've made it to a recipe it's always tasted yuck and I've had to add more of stuff to taste. Basically you need tons of basil, not much garlic, extra virgin olive oil, pine nuts, parmesan, and if you can get it pecorino (not essential, but does make a tiny difference, and salt to taste. Wiz it all up in the mixer and hey presto, an amazing green sludge.

Sacla put cashew nuts in too, but I've never tried it.

― Vicky, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

aargh sorry katie i had to go out for a walk with the parents. recipes in a sec!

― toby, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

If you can be arsed to make it in a pestle and mortar the texture is much better.

― Matt, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The clue is pretty obvious: it's green. Nothing that is green is good to eat. (Possible exception: green Opal Fruit/Starburst.)

― Martin Skidmore, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

wrong, martin. very wrong. lettuce/avocadoes/corgettes/lovely salsa verde stuff i just ate with sea bass numnum/limes etc etc

― toby, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm not sure that I know how to deal with someone taking my pronouncement that green=inedible a bit seriously. I do entirely mean it, but people generally just ignore me on food, which is probably for the best.

― Martin Skidmore, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Vicky did it for me. Hope that's okay :)

― Mark C, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i think i have only had pesto once or twice. i don't dislike it, but i suppose my limited intake indicates etc.

― Ron, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

My evil cousin used to suck on "Pesto cubes". So I hate Pesto by association.

― Cheif White Lotus, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i wasn't actually taking it seriously martin! though i admit it does look like that.

― toby, Friday, 5 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

PESTO IS CANCEROUS SHIT

― dr daif, Friday, 5 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

it makes me sad that you don't like pesto, rainy (+ other pesto- hating allies). precisely what kind of pesto don't you like? if you are referring to that oily pesto that comes in a little glass jar, then no wonder! never mention it again, it is filth. make your own. hazlenuts? cashews? no! DON'T put any other crazy nuts in it. then come back here and say you don't like it... then i might believe you.

― minna, Friday, 5 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Just for a moment, I thought Minna was urging us to make our own hazelnuts. Good luck with that!

― Martin Skidmore, Friday, 5 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I love pesto but I dislike pine nuts. At least on pizza. Go figure.

― Jordan, Friday, 5 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

make our own hazlenuts - haha

― rainy, Friday, 5 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Not liking pesto is almost as bad as not liking the Beatles.

― DeRayMi, Friday, 5 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

ho ho, I don't like the Beatles either.

― rainy, Friday, 5 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

beatles are like cats.

the dead ones are the best ones

― dr daif, Saturday, 6 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Aha, I dislike pesto and the Beatles. There must be a connection. Perhaps I should try eating a Beatle and listening to pesto.

― Martin Skidmore, Saturday, 6 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm on the rainy side re: pesto. All that basil together tastes too green and uncomfortably like cilantro which makes me gag and pull faces.

― Pyth, Sunday, 7 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Relieved to hear that others hate pesto. I've tried and tried, but it just tastes like greasy leaves. And looks even worse. But I love guac, so it must be the taste, not the look.

― katie, Sunday, 7 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

one month passes...

YES!!! I made home made pesto last week and it smells BLUDDY NICE. I have not tried any yet though! Tonight = pasta and pesto night!

― Sarah, Thursday, 15 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

If the pesto is bad, just ADD MORE GARLIC. Pesto is merely a medium to delivier garlic to the tastebuds.

― Dan Perry, Thursday, 15 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

four months pass...

i just made elizabeth david's excellnt recipe, really it's just like everyone already mentioned: bunch of basil, 2 cloves garlic, olive oil, handful of pine nuts, handful of grated parmesan. my hands smell green and dusky.

― minna (minna), Wednesday, 1 January 2003 14:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Mmm.. Pasta with pesto, a favorite dish! So salty and yum!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 2 January 2003 14:48 (twenty-two years ago)

two years pass...

PESTO!

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 20 October 2005 00:32 (nineteen years ago)

this thread title is an abomination

― this is sicilian medieval thuggery (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 20 October 2005 00:33 (nineteen years ago)

SERIOUSLY

― Le Sterling Chow (dr g), Thursday, 20 October 2005 00:36 (nineteen years ago)

I can understand not liking pesto if you've never had it fresh.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 20 October 2005 00:41 (nineteen years ago)

I can only get this if maybe someone didnt like basil anyway - that'd make sense.

OH geez I'm hungry now.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 20 October 2005 00:42 (nineteen years ago)

Pesto hate is shameful, bros.

― Le Sterling Chow (dr g), Thursday, 20 October 2005 00:43 (nineteen years ago)

Hmmm, I don't remember how I had it -- well actually it was probably homemade by my friend's mom, who was a caterer, and Lebanese. So I suspect it was pretty good pesto! But I still didn't like it. But I also hate cilantro with the fiery passion of a thousand suns. Yes, it's an inconvenient kind of thing to dislike, much like onions. Which hasn't stopped me. Sorry, guys!

Altho xp I do like basil a lot in other things, I've been growing my own all summer and it's amazing to have fresh stuff when you want it.

― Laurel, Thursday, 20 October 2005 00:45 (nineteen years ago)

I just made pesto. I used a little too much cheese.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 20 October 2005 00:46 (nineteen years ago)

i thought this was the thread where i got sick eating pesto directly from the container

― this is sicilian medieval thuggery (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 20 October 2005 00:55 (nineteen years ago)

i've had bad pesto. but as a rule, it's classic.

― astor riviera (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 20 October 2005 01:00 (nineteen years ago)

pesto is one of the best things on the planet EVAH

― heywood jablomi (heywood), Thursday, 20 October 2005 01:05 (nineteen years ago)

There were years on end when all I would eat on my birthday was pesto (with pasta). Pesto from a blender/food processor is no good though. MUST BE HAND GROUND.

― viborgu, Thursday, 20 October 2005 04:31 (nineteen years ago)

duders this thread is good timing, I had pasta w/pesto this very same eve

― gear (gear), Thursday, 20 October 2005 05:37 (nineteen years ago)

pesto is pretty tasty. i now have that 'i don't like reggae.... whoa no, i love it-ah' doing laps around my brain. except with 'pesto' substituted for 'reggae' obviously.

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 20 October 2005 05:37 (nineteen years ago)

Hah, I'm doing the same think, but with "I don't like Mondays".

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 20 October 2005 06:12 (nineteen years ago)

Me too!

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 20 October 2005 06:19 (nineteen years ago)

the same thing. duh.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 20 October 2005 06:24 (nineteen years ago)

I made pesto fresh. Used to. Not anymore. Hence why i rarely have it anymore, I guess. :-(

― nathalie, a bum like you (stevie nixed), Thursday, 20 October 2005 06:55 (nineteen years ago)

Anti-Pesto, Gromit!

― C J (C J), Thursday, 20 October 2005 09:49 (nineteen years ago)

There is a garden slug&bug repellent called anti-pesto.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Thursday, 20 October 2005 15:08 (nineteen years ago)

Damn, CJ beat me to it.

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 20 October 2005 15:10 (nineteen years ago)

I think I was in a bad mood at the start of this thread, there's certainly some impatience in my tone.

― Matt (Matt), Thursday, 20 October 2005 15:31 (nineteen years ago)

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