The weekend cook: Thomasina Miers’ recipes for warming winter vegetable soups

A proper thick vegetable soup is just the thing to see you through the exhausting run-up to ChristmasIt’s the start of the silly season, and there are so many parties, events and carol concerts to go to that, whenever I have a rare night in, I want to hunker down and tuck into a great big bowl of comforting, nutritious food. Winter is a time to embrace carbs and vegetables, not least because they’re an excellent way to get good gut health (the magic is in the fibre). In fact, such di