Darina Allen: Top tips for warming winter soups using store cupboard ingredients
Rachel Allen's Brussels Sprout Soup with candied bacon and roasted hazel nuts. Picture: Maja Smend
Rachel Allen loves soups: “There’s no better food to warm the heart and restore the soul. Whether it’s smooth and silky, rustic and chunky or light and brothy, soup conjures up a feeling of cosiness and care for me.” When she was a child, her mum always had a pot of chicken or turkey stock on the go, ready to use as a base for the delicious soups for Rachel and her sister, Simone, when they ran in from school. The memory turned them both into avid soup-makers too.
