There are two ways to cook pasta at home: carefully, laboriously mixing, kneading and rolling out handmade dough, or… emptying a bag. Both, if treated with TLC, can be brilliant, though only one is truly convenient on a regular basis.
Rarely the star of the show, dried pasta is a vessel to hold the sauce reflecting our mood. Feeling relaxed and patient? Slow-cooked ragu it is. Boujie? It’s bottarga time, baby. Fancy journeying back to 2020? Dig out the truffle oil. Exhausted? Go on, decant the pre-made pesto. The possibilities are, indeed, endless.
