Ed made French onion soup the other day. Why do I feel like hes doing all the cooking recently? Or at least all the cooking that isn't an uninspired pile o' rice and beans... It was fairly simple, but definitely delicious.
The broth was dashi, which is some sort of dried tuna flakes that get used in Japanese cooking to make broths. It worked well enough, I mean, it was salty and tasty and liquid, although I'm sure a homemade chicken stock would have been better. The only thing in the soup were onions, and then there were croutons on top of that, with lots of cheddar cheese sprinkled on top. Yes, gruyere would have been more appropriate, but we used what we had.
Cook the onions (1-2 per bowl of soup, cut into long-ish slices) in butter in a pan until they're just starting to caramelize, lightly brown (10 minutes or so). Add them to your bowl of home made chicken broth. Turn the oven on to broil. Put the croutons on top of the soup, and sprinkle a hefty layer of grated cheese on top. Put the bowl under the broiler until the cheese is all melted. Be careful when you take it out, that lil' sucker is gonna be hot.
Easy, and delicious. We're out of cheese now or I'd do it again for dinner.
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