Pinoli

Sweet chew and resinous fat: Sicily puts both in everything from sardines to spinach.

Bitter stalk, sweet nut. Fry the stalk first, the leaf goes in at the end.

The nut emulsifies; the leaf does the flavour. Grind the nut first or it slips.

Oily fish, sweet raisin, resinous nut. Palermo built a pasta on the argument.

Glutamate crystals and soft nut fat — the salt comes entirely from the cheese.

Wet iron leaf needs fat and crunch; the nut supplies both in one spoon.

Resin fat and mustard heat, the oldest pesto substitution there is.

Resin fat rounds a leaf that is sharper than basil ever gets.

The nut's resin dissolves into the oil; the phenol bite stops it going flat. Toast dry, oil after.

Resin cuts the animal fat and the nut stops mince collapsing into paste.

Korean dessert pairing. Resin and fat against a fruit that is mostly nothing.

Resinous fat carries the leathery sweetness into something spoonable.

Resinous fat and toasted florets; both sit on the same soft nutty register.

Resinous fat clings where the florets fray and catch.

Resin and fat against a flat vegetable; texture is the argument.

Resinous fat under warm pepper, toasted so both go slightly bitter.

Nut fat is the solvent; without it the thread stays on the surface.

The vegetable soaks oil and gives nothing back. The nut is the texture that saves it.

Resin and fat against grass; the crunch does the rest.

Same terpenes as the tree it fell out of. Roast both and it reads as forest.

Cocoa butter takes the resin the way a candle takes a wick. Salt is mandatory.