Sunday luncheon

i wish i was sitting here!

I wish you were sitting right there, too, because it means you'd be in Albuquerque!

My favorite!!!

Soupe à l'oignon gratinée from Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Vol. 1. A fine soup for a blustery Sunday at the end of November.

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revlimit says:

and it was SO good. omg so good.
Posted 13 months ago. ( permalink )

rachel a. k. says:

This whole picture looks tasty!
Posted 13 months ago. ( permalink )

grace_tee says:

Are you going through the entire cookbook, like that movie? You're my role model, domestically speaking
Posted 13 months ago. ( permalink )

Grace -- nope. I needed to make lunch and about all we had in the house was an onion. And if you're going to make onion soup, you may as well go straight to the source.
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evaxebra says:

This is so beautiful and relaxing and delicious!
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sfisher71 says:

Oh MAN. Kim just put up a giant batch of brown stock, and the first thing we have in mind for it is The Divine Julia's soupe a l'oignon gratinee. I can't recall whether it's in Mastering, but we always do something we saw her do on one of her shows: Just before serving, lift up the edge of the layer of melted cheese and tip in a dollop of port. Mmmmm.

The other trick that transformed our soupe a l'oignon gratinee was something I learned in Julie Sahni's Masterpieces of Indian Cuisine. A staple of northern Indian cooking is thekorma, which begins by caramelizing onions. Sahni has you cook the onions until just beyond the point of fear, where you're afraid they're going to blacken and char—and at that point you pour in half a cup of water. Be careful, as the steam comes up fiercely, but it simultaneously cools the cooking vessel (preventing burning the onions) and dissolves the caramelized oniony goodness.

When I finally tried that, I had onion soup as good as I had at the little cafe in Paris where the maitre d' joked with us about his old Rolleiflex camera. Imagine Jacques Tati in a tux pantomiming looking down into the top of a Rollei... it was hilarious, but the soup was like nothing I'd had before or since... at least till Julie met Julia.

Highly recommended. :-)
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