Vegetables make the most delicious soups and classic combinations are always a winner. A fresh mushroom soup with freshly picked herbs and a dollop of cream or a packed anything-goes soup with great flavour, harvested from the garden, will keep you warm during those chilly winter nights. Add dumplings and you have the proverbial icing on the cake so to speak.
What makes a good vegetable soup?
Layering flavours
Start with the basics like onions, celery and carrots – the famous of cookery school, and then build onto that with other vegetables, herbs and spices. Or start with one ingredient like potatoes for a potato soup and add onion and garlic, a little bacon
