Simple noodles with pesto are probably one of the most popular pasta dishes. They are normally ready in no time without much effort. I suspect, however, that many people will go for store-bought pesto because they don’t want to invest the extra work for homemade pesto… even though it’s super easy to make and most of the time so much better when made fresh than anything you can buy in a supermarket ;P Best example – this simple and delicious Homemade Arugula Pesto aka. Pesto Verde. Ready in less than 5 minutes. Pasta normally takes longer than that to cook… ;)