05/12/2026
A few weekends ago, I got really inspired by Justin De Leon's pesto... It's rustic like a nonna with a mortar and pestle, more coarse and less emulsified, so you get little pops of garlic, chunks of pine nut, and little chunks of parm reggiano, and it's more basil-y too. Better in every way, I thought... So, I came home and reworked our pesto, and it's the base for this pizza... The New Pesto Pie, with, yes, our new recipe pesto genovese, fresh mozzarella, slow-roasted heirloom cherry tomatoes from , finished with parm, coarse black pepper, toasted pine nuts, stracciatella, basil oil, and fresh basil