“Highway Hypnosis” is a well documented phenomenon. Your body is essentially autopiloting the drive. It most commonly happens when you’re driving a route you’re familiar with, like a commute.

Technically what you made very well could still be “Pesto”, since the word refers to how it’s prepared not what’s in it (shares the same root as Pestle). The basil, pine nut, olive oil, and cheese recipe you were following would be Pesto alla Genovese

Twist, tuck, freeze

Snarky Puppy and TWRP

The average president has been convicted of 0.74 felonies, unless you exclude outliers in which case the average is 0