🥣 Soups & Toast Toppers

Comfort food for quiet evenings and misty mornings. These recipes are simple, quick, and tailored to your hut or suite — using just a kettle, toaster, microwave, or slow cooker. Each one pairs with a local walk and a seasonal plant from your Nature ID Index.

Find local ingredients

Pop to the local shops & food venues to find fresh ingredients for your soup and toast toppers! See our guide to local places to get all you need for a tasty treat.

These recipes are designed for hands-off cooking in your shepherds hut or guest suite. Each one uses simple ingredients, suits your space (no oven required).

Soups 

🍅 Tomato & Red Pepper Soup

Prep: 🔥 Microwave or slow cooker Walk pairing: 🚶‍♂️ Tintern to Brockweir Plant pairing: 🌿 Wild thyme, nasturtium

Ingredients:

  • 🍅 1 tin chopped tomatoes

  • 🌶️ 1 red pepper (pre-chopped or roasted)

  • 🧅 1 onion

  • 🧄 1 garlic clove

  • 🥄 1 tsp tomato purée

  • 🥣 200 ml vegetable stock

Serve with: 🍞 Toast topped with cream cheese and wild thyme

 

🧅 Caramelised Onion & Apple Soup

Prep: 🔥 Slow cooker or microwave Walk pairing: 🚶‍♀️ Tintern to Penterry Church Plant pairing: 🌳 Crab apple, sage

Ingredients:

  • 🧅 2 onions

  • 🍏 1 apple (crab or dessert)

  • 🧄 1 garlic clove

  • 🧈 1 tsp butter or oil

  • 🥣 300 ml vegetable stock

Serve with: 🧀 Toast topped with cheddar and sage

 

🥔 Potato & Leek Soup

Prep: 🔥 Microwave or slow cooker Walk pairing: 🚶 Tintern to Devil’s Pulpit Plant pairing: 🌱 Wild garlic, chives

Ingredients:

  • 🥔 2 potatoes

  • 🌾 1 leek

  • 🧄 1 garlic clove

  • 🥣 300 ml vegetable stock

  • 🥛 Splash of cream (optional)

Serve with: 🍞 Toast topped with butter and wild garlic

 

🌿 Wild Garlic & Potato Soup

Prep: 🔥 Slow cooker or microwave Walk pairing: 🚶‍♂️ Tintern to Devil’s Pulpit Plant pairing: 🌱 Wild garlic, chives

Ingredients:

  • 🥔 2 medium potatoes, peeled & diced

  • 🧅 1 onion, chopped

  • 🧄 1 garlic clove, minced

  • 🌿 1 cup wild garlic leaves, roughly chopped

  • 🥣 500 ml vegetable stock

  • 🧂 Salt & pepper, to taste

Serve with: 🍞 Toast topped with butter and extra wild garlic leaves

 

🫐 Blackberry & Apple Stew

Prep: 🔥 Slow cooker or microwave Walk pairing: 🚶‍♀️ Tintern to Brockweir Plant pairing: 🍇 Foraged blackberries, crab apple

Ingredients:

  • 🍏 2 apples, peeled, cored & sliced

  • 🫐 1 cup fresh blackberries

  • 🥄 1 tsp ground cinnamon

  • 🍯 2 tbsp honey

  • 💧 2 tbsp water

Serve with: 🥄 A spoonful of yogurt or spread on toast for a sweet-tart finish

🍞 Toast Toppers ideas

Quick, no-cook ideas for toasted bread—perfect for light bites, simple lunches, or a cosy snack.

  • Cream cheese + nasturtium leaves

  • Hummus + wild mustard

  • Apple slices + cheddar + sage

  • Peanut butter + sliced banana

  • Avocado + wild garlic + lemon zest

  • Wild garlic & cream cheese

  • Wood sorrel & goat cheese

  • Rosehip & honey ricotta

📸 Share Your Stay & Your Meals

We love seeing how guests make these recipes their own. If you’ve cooked a meal during your stay — whether it’s a slow cooker stew, a toast topper, or something foraged — we’d love to see it!

  • 📷 Snap a photo of your meal or cooking setup

  • 📝 Share your cooking hack, recipe, or foraged twist from your stay

  • 🌿 Tag us or message us via our footer links

🏡 We may feature your creation (with credit!) in future guest cards or seasonal bundles

Every meal tells a story — and yours might inspire the next guest.