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You know, the one with cherry tomatoes, creme fraiche and pesto?
The same idea works really well with ready-made spinach & ricotta tortellini

For 2:
Boil tortellini per instructions (usually just 1-2 mins).
Drain that; in same pan, heat olive oil/melt knob of butter, add halved/quartered cherry or baby plum tomatoes. Stir around till beginning to soften, add a big dollop or two of creme fraiche, a tablespoon or so of pesto and seasoning.
Add pasta, stir in to coat well and serve - with a few torn basil leaves of you have them, and parmesan at the table.

About 10 mins, start to finish
Garlic bread is of course gorgeous but not obligatory

Lovely

We have TONS of cherry toms from the greenhouse, might try this with some nut free pesto

Kaz if you have basil, when I make it I never add the pine nuts

Oh, also, they're not nuts but I guess you wouldn't want to risk it.
I was put off by Ali (as opposed to Ally) who got something called pine nut mouth, caused by the fact that pine nuts go off quite quickly. It's horrid, so I stopped buying them for anything, whereas in ready-made pesto they should presumably be fresher than any from the shops.

Yum. I'll give that a try.

I love the summer winter chicken - though we haven't had it for ages (Micks not that keen).

My basil didn't grow well this year, unlike last, and I need a bit for my pasta sauces, so I'd probably buy the pesto. Some pesto containing stuff has a nut warning so I tend to look for when it says nut free, just to err on the safe side.

That mouth thing Ali had sounds horrid

It is Kaz, she was without any sense of taste for weeks

Sainsburys did do a frozen pesto, in little pellets, which was perfect, but they stopped it
Whenever I bought a jar the end would go off, so now as soon as I open it, I freeze the rest in a silicone ice cube tray (charity shop lol), then you can just tip it into a bag

The supermarkets usually have basil plants for about £1, they do well on the kitchen windowsill

That might be the best option then, just to buy a couple of window sill plants! At least that way I'd know it was fresh I had never heard of that before, but to lose all taste for a month