Homemade Pesto: It’s a Friend and a Condiment - No. 38

Read while you hum the theme song from the Golden Girls

I’VE SPENT HALF MY LIFE feeding other people, and the lesson I’ve learned is to know in the morning what I’m cooking for dinner. It shortens prep when everyone’s hangry, and I, too, seem to be in better spirits all day because I’ve got a plan.

Even if that plan involves tossing yesterday’s spaghetti in sauce, piling it into a casserole, and blanketing…