Background🔗

Continuing this week's fish theme, let me try to work with the only fishy thing we have at the moment, and probably most of the time. That's the good old canned tuna/salmon. Actually the product we've been using recently comes in pouch instead of can. Nonetheless, it basically functions the same as can, shelf stable for a spontaneous fishy day like today.

Usually seafood goes well with pesto. We happen to have a lot of celery. Time to explore a new pesto recipe, aka blend up the celery to thoroughly transform it to something more than healthy... If I were to rank my liking to vegetables, celery is a strong contender to the end of the queue, especially by itself without nut butter or cheese. The texture is fiberish and the taste is kinda mediciney. You ask me why I got it? Well, it's healthy, and it's on sale... Anyway, once it's in pesto form, along with nuts and cheese, I might gladly accept it. Time to find out.

Now we have our fish and pesto tank, the aquarium just needs some decorations. For that we have a pretty good cast. Let black pearl tree oyster be a jelly fish. Let woodear be coral.

Let's check out the aquarium.

Formula🔗

Sauce🔗

Celery pistachio pesto

• celery
• pistachio
• olive oil
• salt

Topping🔗

• canned salmon
• woodear mushroom
• black pearl tree oyster mushroom

Finish🔗

• shaved parm

Evaluation🔗

It's very tasty. The mushrooms are more flavorful than the Mushroom Melody Pizza last week. I think it's the added salt directly on top, from the fish and the parm that brings out the shroomy notes. The fish is not as funky as sardine, nonetheless salty fish is always a good topping on pizza. As for the sauce, no celery flavor at all, it's so mild compared to the toppings that I can only taste it when getting to the crust edge, and it's pleasantly creamy and sweet? I guess it's the pistachio. So celery pistachio pesto approved.

Demo🔗

Variation🔗

Later we also made a fishless version, dubbed as empty aquarium. It's the same topping minus fish, same pesto sauce, and same parm finish with sour cream dollops. Sour cream is a nice touch, bringing heterogeneity to flavor and texture.