pesto by the spoon

11 am: time for a break. more coffee of course. also pesto, from a spoon, directly from the bowl. i know, i know, most people have a pastry or even a donut with a cup of coffee, but how can i have anything else when i've got freshly made pesto?

i'm a slut for pesto. lust after it. love it to bits. will do anything for it. couldn't live without it.

i fell in love with it at first bite; then quickly planned my college-fling across europe based not on museums, history, sightseeing; no, i went directly to genoa. for the pesto. i've never looked back.

for a history of my passion for pesto and a nice little minestrone al pesto recipe, check out:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/09/29/FDGD78TMSH1.DTL

will trawl for my actual pasto recipe though i do confess that a good bottled or jarred pesto is not bad at all, worth the effort of spooning and swooning...... anyhow, i do have my recipe in one of my columns so will post......

...note: the good citizens of pesto-land (ie liguria) debate constantly about what should be included in pesto, their iconic dish, and some feel that there is no place in that sauce for garlic (!) rest assured that my pesto is garlicky. as garlicky as i am!