List of things I will never do: 1. Tell you something was awesome when it wasn’t and 2. Own a lizard.

I put so much energy into this recipe. I bought all of the ingredients fresh (I’m talking an egregious Whole Foods bill here), I toasted the damn pine nuts, and I even bought vegetable pasta to up the health…. but alas… it tasted like eating wiggly nothing. I even ADDED stuff I found on another pesto recipe-a dash of lemon juice, the tomatoes… I tried. I am also not too proud to say that I have never made pesto before and user error is a real possibility but did we end up dousing that bad boy in Texas Pete? Yes… yes we did. -Nikki