Spaghetti  al pesto Genovese using the real recipe from my aunt's Grazia recipe. She lived in Genoa for many years. When you cook the pasta, add string beans and a cut up potato to the water. The traditional way is to use trofie pasta but I didn't have any so I settled for spaghetti. Either way when prepared this way the outcome is wonderful.

 Home made cheese ravioli with pesto genovese, the classic pesto, topped with toasted pinoli, - pine nuts-for added flavor and to enhance the presentation 

This is the real way pasta al pesto genovese is prepared. Along witht he pasta a small potato and a few cut up string beaans are addded for an out of this world flavor.

 

 This is the way real pesto genovese is prepared. After you prepare the pesto, you cook the pasta along with string beans and a finely cut up potato. The taste is unbelievable.