Main reason is that I’m poor, or perhaps stingy depending on how you view it, and olive oil, basil and pine nuts aren’t exactly as cheap as the replacement ingredients. Obviously the product is entirely different. Most of the time I also replace cheese with nutritional yeast.
So yeah, I wouldn’t call it pesto, but heavily inspired by it. A pesto-like perhaps.
The problem is less about them disliking pesto, and more about them saying something along the lines of “all pesto is bad”
This includes your… interesting… rendition of
Main reason is that I’m poor, or perhaps stingy depending on how you view it, and olive oil, basil and pine nuts aren’t exactly as cheap as the replacement ingredients. Obviously the product is entirely different. Most of the time I also replace cheese with nutritional yeast.
So yeah, I wouldn’t call it pesto, but heavily inspired by it. A pesto-like perhaps.