Reviewed: May 23, 2012

This recipe made me think outside the box for pesto and I'll be creating my own creations with what's on hand from now on. Only problem is it looks like catfood but mixed in with the pasta and garnished with some fresh spinach or herbs or tomatos it's fine. I more or less used the same ingredients except I only had dried basil (looking forward to using fresh) and I tried the cream cheese suggestion. I didn't exactly follow proportions though - I just kept adding stuff until it tasted good so I probably added more garlic and it needed a lot of salt and pepper. It has to have a strong flavor so it goes far on the pasta. I think too much tomato might result in a bland flavor. Next time I'd add more mint. This would be good on brushetta, perhaps under a tomato slice to cover up the cat food like appearance.

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cspielman

Reviewed: May 19, 2012

Only had 1 tomato so I used 2 drained cans of Fire Roasted Garlic diced Tomatoes. Also substitued plain Greek yogurt for the ricotta & it came our SPECTACULAR...

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Mary

Reviewed: May 19, 2012

great sauce.

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sansan

Cooking Level: Expert

Reviewed: May 18, 2012

We enjoyed this recipe very much. A lively & light summer pasta. I used a lighter Bowtie pasta cooked in chicken broth. I was so excited to make it that I used cream cheese rather than going to store for ricotta. I will definitely make this again. Thanks MASTER815K.

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JoyDee

Cooking Level: Expert

Home Town: Gladstone, Oregon, USA

Living In: Myrtle Creek, Oregon, USA

Reviewed: May 18, 2012

Rather than using all six tomatoes, I added some sun dried tomatoes in oil just to give a different spin on this recipe. I also added an extra clove of garlic as we are Italian and love the stuff!

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candygirl

Cooking Level: Expert

Home Town: Brooklyn, New York, USA

Living In: Indian Trail, North Carolina, USA

Reviewed: Sep. 26, 2011

Great basic recipe. You can play with the amounts of basil, mint, tomatoes to suit your own taste! Can't use nut...so I just omitted...would love to know a good pine nut sub...that's not another nut. Tried sesame seeds...not a good flavor for this or other pesto recipes.

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Lynn

Reviewed: Aug. 29, 2011

I followed this recipe exactly but added pork chops and served with garlic bread. I made the sauce a few hours before hand to let the flavours blend, annd I put the sauce over the linguinie in a wok and mixed it up to let the sauce heat up again. I served it to my hubby and a girlfriend who was visiting from out of town and we all agreed that it was lacking some major flavour! I definately reccomend adding much more garlic, basil, mint, salt, and pepper as this was quite bland as is! I fully expected "knock your socks off flavour" and it was far from that!

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Tys-ol-Lady

Cooking Level: Intermediate

Living In: Olds, Alberta, Canada

Reviewed: Aug. 29, 2010

Pesto sure has come a long way from the usual suspects of basil, pine nuts and Parm; now pestos are made from a myriad of ingredients ... and I'm not complaining. While basil itself is so summery and fresh, the addition of mint in this creamy pesto is a brilliant way to add some zing and liveliness and works especially well with tomatoes. One minor caveat - this recipe appears to have been re-created like most of us cook, using a 'handful of these' and a 'few of those' as measurements instead of precise amounts (my 20 basil leaves were on the skimpy side as I had just cut back and stripped the plant earlier in the week, so I knew I needed to supplement with store-bought leaves). No matter, though, the end result was delicious and proclaimed a winner by all who tasted it ~ many thanks to MASTER815K.

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Nicolette

Reviewed: Apr. 21, 2010

I like that it was creamy, however I didn't have any ricotta so I just used cream cheese. I think adding some fresh salmon and peas would be good. I will try this next time.

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