Italian Seafood Salad with Pesto, Potatoes & Green Beans

Insalata di mare (seafood salad) is a very popular antipasto in Italy. This one, which reminds Lucio Galletto of his childhood in a restaurant family on the Ligurian coast, is vibrant with the region’s best-known condiment, pesto. Meaning ‘pound’ in Italian, pesto was traditionally made by pounding small basil leaves with pine nuts, cheese and Liguria’s mild olive oil; the resulting paste, which could be stored for months, added a splash of summer to soups, pastas and salads during t