You see it sold in jars in the pasta sauce aisle and have probably spotted it on restaurant menus starring in everything from grain bowls to sandwiches to steak entrées. But what is pesto, exactly, ...

Jason Michael Thomas, founder of Urban Awareness Gardens, demonstrated how to make several types of pesto using foraged ...

Pesto is often seen as a dressing for pasta, but you can also transform this herby condiment into the perfect simple salad dressing. All you need to do to give it a looser, dressing-like texture is to ...

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Small bowl of fresh pesto with ingredients on counter - Claudiostocco/Getty Images When it comes to pesto, everyone's go-to use is pasta. Could anything be better? Probably not, but that's just where ...

Pesto is a summer hitmaker, making heirloom tomato tarts, herby potato salads and super quick weeknight pastas sing. By Tanya Sichynsky Florence Fabricant’s basic pesto.Credit...Linda Xiao for The New ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." With that said, everything on this list can be made with store-bought pesto as well. It's one of those ...