French onion soup is such a perfect winter food - sweet and savory with caramelized onion, bread and melty cheese. I had actually never had it before I made it for the first time a few months ago. It took a little while to grow on me, but now it is one of my favorites, and a perfect dish for the first week in our new house!
That's right, we officially moved in on Wednesday. It snowed about 4 inches Tuesday night and on into Wednesday morning as the movers began to carry our stuff down the precarious flight of external stairs up to our apartment. Things only got crazier when the movers got to our new house:
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| Ooops! The moving truck got stuck in our neighbor's lawn/driveway! |
But now we're here, almost entirely unpacked (bless you, Kevin and your type A tendencies!) and cooking delicious meals in our new kitchen.
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| Chopping onions makes me sad |
Don't worry, I'd still be crying even if I wasn't chopping pounds of onions! It's those darn Olympics! Even in years not marred by human (and animal!) rights abuses (ugh. Russia!), the Olympic Games regularly bring me to tears. There's something about a person devoting his or her life to a sport, and having the skill to achieve the extraordinary that makes me weepy. Kevin will attest that I even cried tonight watching a commercial of Bela Karolyi carrying Kerri Strug after her historic vault… Damn you Olympics!! I'm crying right now just thinking about it.
Anyhow… back to the soup. It's based on this recipe: http://www.bonappetit.com/recipe/french-onion-soup-with-comte. I half the recipe, so that it makes one dinner and one set of leftovers, and I cook the onions on medium (or medium-low, given the power of my new stove's burners) so that they brown without burning.
I enjoy watching a huge pile of onions slowly cook down
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and caramelize
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To become:
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| Soup! |
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