The weekend cook: Thomasina Miers’ pasta recipes

Trendy grains are all well and good, but pasta deserves a spot on the dinner table, tooColoured rice, quinoa, barley, spelt, buckwheat, freekeh: nutritious grains are so in vogue right now that it’s easy to overlook pasta when dreaming up interesting supper dishes. Yes, it contains gluten, that bugbear of so many modern diets, but I adore its silky, slightly chewy texture. It’s surprisingly simple to make from scratch, too, though if you do go down the homemade route, start with an e