Baked Mussels with herb, ginger, and peanut pesto

Make this dish a day ahead and then bake at the last minute. Be sure to serve with little cocktail forks or spoons so that you can get every bit of the pesto out of the shell. The basil, cilantro, and mint pesto with ginger and peanuts is a twist on the Mediterranean version that can be used in other dishes calling for traditional basic pesto. In place of the serrano chile, you could substitute a teaspoon or so of Chinese chili-garlic sauce.