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I LOVE french onion soup. It’s one of the only kinds of soup that I like (the only other is clam chowder).

My girlfriend uses a simpler and a tastier version (meaning, no additives, ready made mixes etc. All measurements in metric, sorry, but use googles handy conversion if you’re used to us stuff)

What you need:
1 kg of onions
4 large cloves of garlic
3 dl of organic cider or white wine (cheap dry wine is perfect for cooking btw, no need for expensive stuff)
1 l of herb stock, preferrably not from a cube, but cubes are ok if you don’t have fresh stock
fresh white bread with crust
mozzarella, grated
thyme, salt and bay leaf to taste

Chop the onions, cush the garlic, braise in a pot with thyme and some olive oil for ca 15 minutes. Add the stock and cider or wine, add bay leave. Let it boil for 20 minutes and add salt to taste. If using regular white onions, ad a pinch of sugar.
After 20min, remove the bay leaves, and divide the soup evenly to ovenproof bowls. Add the bread, as cubes or as a whole slice, and the cheese, bake until the cheese has melted.

Believe me, this will blow you away with taste. Too bad her food blog is in Estonian, but I can link you the picture of the delishiousness - for pictures NEED NO LANGUAGE

Anyways, good CR post, I’ll hit you an email when she finally will do the Portal cake

Wow, slow news month?

TAPS - This is a regular feature on 4cr.
I’m not sure how long you’ve been reading our site?

Normally we don’t have it with meat, but that does look seriously delish.

Also try replacing a cup of the broth with a cup of dark beer (porter’s probably best). Smells to high heaven while you’re cooking, but it’s worth it in the end.

Mmmm, French onion soup…

Never seen it with beef before, but it looks nice!

As a french guy I must say I’m a bit surprise.

We don’t put beef in onion soup here ( In Paris, or in Lyon where the recipe come from if my believe my granddad )

I must try your recipe now…:p

Wise choice in keeping busy while waiting for the soup to finish. I just bought Seasons 1 and 2 myself. I’ve been hooked on that show from day one.

As for the soup I, like you, have always preferred mine with beef instead of without, as some have said. Personal taste I guess.

yeah, well the beef comes from the way my parents used to do it.
We used to do meat fondue http://tinyurl.com/35jny4 , and when we were done, we’d take the soup and the rest of the meat, and pour it in the french onion soup bowls for the day after…

So I guess this is where I took the “meat in onion soup” thing

@Pez - I’ll have to try yours next time

I never knew there was a name for that kind of bowl. Putting it in the oven with the cheese and bread is a great idea, I may have to try something like that with other soups.

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I love seeing this feature in my RSS. Awesome.

Stargate > Battlestar

I had some very nice vintage 80’s French onion soup bowls but we ended up donating them because they take up too much room for just one recipe.

hahah So true!
They really take a lot of space

Piss off you dirty pig!

…Shut it down

I want to meet Chef Ramsey in real life

I’d probably use mashed potatoes instead. Seeing how that’s what it looked like to me when I saw the picture.

I can’t stand cheese in certain things. It triggers my gag reflex.

Since when does French Onion Soup have BEEF in it? What you have just made is surely American Onion Soup. In fact, you should just call it Edgar Onion Soup and take credit where it is due, coz that soup looks pretty dammned fine. I personally would go with ham myself, or bacon. Mmmmm, bacon. Dammit, now I gotta go have some bacon!

Well, I’ve been visiting since I saw a link on Evilavatar.com concerning those Revolution sketches that sorta helped this site break out around the time the silver brick was being released.n Now that I think about it I suppose I do vaguely remember something like this feature but that doesn’t mean I think it’s really relevant to the site. Not that it matters, Luet shall get his wish. What’s one less IP, over the course of 4 years?

Where did you get the steaks from?

the grocery store. I had some 3 peppercorn steaks in the freezer
the pepper gave the soup more taste

Hey Edgar - great recipe! I actually tried it out last night as I had suggested it to my girlfriend (who loves French Onion Soup).

We only had a pair of French Onion Bowls (actually went out to get a pair!) and had to microwave it to melt the cheese as the bowls we found were not oven safe (?!) but your recipe made an awesome dinner! Thank you!

I too want to meet this amazing chef