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pesto
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Pesto is a four-track EP by Less Than Jake , consisting of old four-track recordings of the group, recorded in 1992 and released in 1999 by Very Small Records . The EP was recorded before the horn section or Roger Manganelli were included in the band's ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
olive oil-based pasta sauce, 1937, from Italian pesto, contracted form of pestato, past participle of pestare "to pound, to crush," in reference to the crushed herbs and garlic in it, from Latin root of pestle .
Usage examples of pesto.
Just this one night, she decided, she would indulge herself and have pesto with her pasta instead of marinara.
Eliette were well behaved during the meal, though it was soon apparent that tortellini in pesto sauce was not their favorite dish.
Less of a leader but a mechanical genius, such as in hotwiring cars, picking locks, fixing ski lifts, and turning pesto sauce into an anaesthetic.
Her dinner would consist of leftover pesto pasta and a slice of stale French bread.
Caroline, bringing her famous dried-tomato pesto to parties and running lab columns late at night so we could go away for the weekend and always .
Stanford ordered the trenelle al pesto, the local pasta, veal, andfocaccia, the salted bread of the region.
Hers had been filled with pasta, little jars of pesto sauce, bottled spring water, a Iloaf of good Seattle bread, and a couple of bottles of sauvignon blanc and zinfandel wine.
Lipsitz, who had fitted my shoes during my entire boyhood, ordered spaghetti with pesto sauce from me as she stood chatting with Mr.
Council Crest Park, as she was cooking a dinner of angel-hair pasta with pesto sauce, pine nuts, fresh garlic, and chopped tomatoes, Holly suddenly wondered how Jim Ironheart could have known that young Billy Jenkins was in danger even before the drunken driver in the pickup truck had appeared over the crest of the hill.
Stews and soda breads were listed alongside linguini and pesto dishes.
For the layers, she mixes together soy hamburger crumbles, a good tomato sauce filled with mushrooms and finely chopped vegetables, low-fat mozzarella cheese, and non-fat ricotta cheese made even tastier by a good infusion of pesto.
De Biasi had given me a huge Panettone, biscuits, jars of anchovies, a bottle of olive oil, ajar of pesto.
THEY SAT AT ONE of the sidewalk tables at Swingers, on the side of the coffee shop along Beverly Boulevard: Chili Palmer with the Cobb salad and iced tea, Tommy Athens the grilled pesto chicken and a bottle of Evian.
Focaccia alla salvia, torta pasqualina, trenette col pesto, trippa con il sugo di tocco, burrida, tomaxelle, cima alla Genovese, dozens more.
Bloody Marys came a bottle of Barolo and a soup in which streamers of egg, flecks of parsley, pesto sauce, and pasta circulated through a chicken broth.