I have always found soups (and stews) to be particularly comforting and yesterday made a very satisfying chicken noodle soup for lunch.
I recently made, what was for me, a ‘new’ soup recipe - broccoli and asparagus - which was delicious.
So I was wondering, do you have a soup you particularly like? A French or British (or other) recipe? Or an old forgotten one, perhaps one from your youth or childhood?
I love soup so this is actually incredibly difficult to answer!
Our current favourite is red lentil, courgette and tomato.
All homemade soup is wonderful but in my top 5 would be:
leek and potato
spicy tomato
Lentil
Chinese noodle with Pak choi and crispy tofu
Thin vegetable with vermicelli
Still on soup but not home made. When we travel to France, apart from the obvious stocking up on wine, we always buy soup. The Knorr soups you can buy in France are excellent and unavailable in the UK.
Roasted red pepper is very nice - home made,
Gazpacho - which is quite laborious to make; fortunately SuperU does a decent version - and ajo blanco.
Favourite is Minestrone followed in no particular order by Mulligatawny, Carrot & Coriander or any variation of vegetable soup.
It has to be cabbage soup from a traditional restaurant near us .The restaurant owns fields across the road where it grows its own cabbages.
It is served in a huge turine no matter how many people are at the table and although meant as a first course, is really a meal in itself.
It gained a moment of fame many years ago when Keith Floyd featured it in a program and introduced British viewers to the delight of chabrot
Do you do the red wine thing at the end?
Yes, as per the last word in my post (but I might not have spelled it right) 
Ah yes - you’re right.
(My only knowledge of it comes from Martin Walker!)
Who is …?
Author of the “Bruno” series of books about a Dordogne policeman who also likes to cook in between solving crime. 
They are quite good fun, although he’s not the world’s best when it comes to believable plots. There seem to be a lot of international terrorists in the Perigord. 
Rumbled!
Cullen skink.
Just downloaded a book on Kindle for 99c so will give him a try
Butternut with ginger and coconut cream
Any good wholesome broth.
Oooh that sounds good. The butternut seedlings are just starting to grow. Will make a note 
French Onion.