Brigita Puriņa prepares winter tomato soup stock from home-grown tomatoes

Cookbook collector and food culture enthusiast Brigita Puriņa, known as the winner of the fifth season of the TV show "Īstās latvju saimnieces" ("The Real Latvian Housewives"), has revealed how she prepares a tomato soup stock to see her through the winter months.

Puriņa says tomatoes are among her favorite vegetables and that she could live on home-grown tomatoes alone. This passion for garden-grown tomatoes has also become the foundation of her winter preserving routine — her own harvest is processed and stored so that a ready-made creamy soup base is available throughout the cold season.

A "laboratory" for winter stores

Puriņa refers to her home kitchen, where these winter preserves are made, as a "laboratory" — a place where different preparations for the months ahead are created every season. This time, the focus is on a tomato soup stock, which allows the taste of summer-grown vegetables to be enjoyed even in winter.

Brigita Puriņa is known not only as a television show winner but also as an active promoter of food culture in Latvia and a cookbook collector. In her daily life she pays attention to both culinary traditions and household skills, including preserving seasonal produce for winter, sharing her experience with a wider audience.