Receta Asparagus and halloumi pasta with smoky tomato pesto

Hellllooo, halloumi. Bringer of happiness, upgrader of barbecues, squeaker of teeth. I use halloumi all the time, but I realised the other day* that 99% of the time, I serve my halloumi with bread. Halloumi burgers, halloumi pittas, halloumi bruschetta… all good stuff, but today I thought I’d make something different – halloumi pasta! Cheese and pasta are a match made in heaven, but somehow I’ve always overlooked halloumi as a pasta accompaniment. Never again. It’s *when I’m alone, my mind often wanders to thoughts of Did you know that there are now five times as many online searches for ‘halloumi’ than there were 5 years ago? I’m not even sure I’d heard of the stuff five years ago (though I always knew there…