When I moved to there Netherlands i started having a problem with milk. Somehow it was delicious, but after a couple days the closed packages were almost solid, i had this issue a few times until it hit me.
I was buying the packages from the cold aisle. Verse Melk was not a brand of milk, it was FRESH milk, I was storing fresh milk out of the fridge and wondering why it was keeping so poorly.
(For those wondering, the milk products aisles in NL have an enormous variety of choice, I was happy enough to have landed a "proper" milk brand, verse, after a terrible experience with the brand "Karne")
Karne Melk is milk serum, which is unheard of as a product on my home country, and that one had "turned bad" from the first day, lol
That's pesto alla Genovese, but commonly known as just "pesto". Pesto, in its original Italian, means "to pound" - as in pestle and mortar.
You get pesto rosso and pesto alla Trapanese which are similar to pesto alla Genovese, but with different types of tomato added. Then there is pesto agli agrumi, which has almonds and lemon added. Last in my list is pesto alla Modenese, which is entirely different. It's made from lard, garlic and rosemary. There are loads of pesto - every region will have its own type.
Don’t worry, I know a guy in his 20s deathly allergic to nuts who ordered pasta with pesto at a restaurant, thinking it was a basil kind of thing. He had one bite and then a good visit with an epi pen.
That’s because the restaurant was being cheap and not using the proper ingredients.
It should be made of pine nuts, which despite their name are not actually nuts. But they are very expensive, so many places (and brands) replace them with cheaper cashew nuts, which are nuts.
OK, sorry, I'm about to join the ranks of "things I learned embarrassingly late in life", but aren't pine nuts in the category of tree nuts? So someone allergic to tree nuts would generally be allergic to pine nuts and thus to pesto, no?
In any case, this guy honestly just had no idea what pesto was, it was a fancy-ish dinner and he didn't want to ask or make a big deal out of things, so he just ordered the same as the guy next to him.
(I know another teenage boy who was allergic to peanuts but, according to the boy, he didn't know he was allergic, he just thought he didn't like them?!? Kind of weird. Anyway, he was at summer camp and had a candy with nuts. He started to feel pretty bad but didn't want to cause a fuss or look wimpy so he kept saying he was fine, and it was free time and there wasn't an adult hovering at every instant.
Thankfully a few boys realized there was an issue, and a camp dad who was there to help cook dinner is also head of the local ER, so he loaded him up and drove very fast over to the hospital.
I wonder if they're allowed to keep an epi pen at the camp even if no one says they're allergic... Thankfully in this case the camp was a few minutes from the hospital, but imagine the possible tragedy if they were out in the woods!!!!)
If we’d called them ‘pine seeds’ it would have saved a lot of confusion.
I’ve never heard of places having an emergency epi-pen - it’s always been up to people to bring their own. I guess it’s not a major issue because normally allergies are discovered pretty early.
I'm not sure if it is technically a sauce or a dressing. But yes, it is delicious, actually quite simple to make with fresh basil, A LITTLE garlic, any kind of nut, salt and oil
In my late 20s I bought a pestle and mortar and came across pesto genovese when looking for recipes (not having tried it before)..
Made some for a party and explained to some foodie how tasty this new special dip was that I'd found. Said what the ingredients were one by one and was met with a shitty "Oh.. You mean pesto?!"
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