French onion soup …..adulterated from Donnahay.com
For some reason I like soups you can chew. Otherwise what’s the point of eating? I love this divine soup: it almost melts in your mouth while you munch on the soggy cheese toast. It’s a perfect little entrée or something to whip up on a Sunday afternoon. It’s very rich so you could almost serve it as a main course with a chic salade verte. ( and lots of crunchy bread and melted cheese…)
You need for about 4 to 6 fashionista, 2 big blokes or 32 models:
8 brown onions, sliced
30g butter
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 tablespoon thyme leaves
2 tablespoons plain (all-purpose) flour
2 tablespoons brandy
2 tablespoons Dijon mustard
2 litres beef stock
2 cups (500ml) water
Toasted cheese sandwiches or parmesan toasts, to serve
- Slip into your Gucci trackie pants.
- Pull on your favorite Hermes cashmere Hoodie.
- Pour a big fat wine. Gulp.
- Find the whizzer.
- Put on Prada sunglasses.
- Apply more waterproof mascara.
- Chop up the onions into rough chunks and then toss in the whizzer. This is Nigella’s trick so you don’t spend hours crying over onions. Sob.
- Now find a large frypan and toss in the onions, butter, oil and thyme over a over medium heat. Wipe away a few tears.
- Cover with a lid ( that’s the saucepan not you) and let it simmer and cook for about 35 minutes.
- You can stir every now and then.
- Donna says the secret to making this soup is to “brown the onions very well, until they are a deep golden colour, a lovely soft texture, and really sweet and flavoursome.”
- So when the onions are it’s as soft and golden as Beyonce’s booty you can throw in the flour and give it a good stir so it’s all mixed it, say for about 3 minutes.
- Now open the brandy and pour in 2 tabs. That’s pour in with the onions not in your mouth.
- Keep stirring and cooking for about 1 minute.
- Please put away the brandy. Now.
- Pour another wine instead.
- Now plop in the mustard, the stock and water and let it simmer for about 15 minutes.
- It should smell AMAZING!
- While it’s simmering you should melt some cheese on toast.
- Serve the divine soup in chic bowls with a slice of toasted cheese on the side or floating virtually on the top.
- Accessorise with some chic green thyme leaves.
- Delicious !
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Yummy! I loooove French onion soup more than any other soup.
I wrote my own easy-ish version as well. Bet you never thought a French Onion Soup recipe would have James Van Der Beek crying: http://bit.ly/qX1SlG