Soups

It is really easy to make home-made soup, and it’s very odd how few people bother considering how much nicer it tastes than any out of a tin. The rustling of packets and clank of tin-openers may be a welcome sound from Tiger Bay to the Wash, but what appears in the soup-bowl a minute later has very little to do with the piping hot, delicately flavoured and beautifully coloured bowlful, with its handful of sizzling croûtons or swirl of cream, that is your own vegetable soup. And the money saved by the manufacturers in buying vegetables by the ton is spent on packaging and massive advertising, so ready-made soups are not particularly money-saving and should be kept for emergencies.