French Onion Soup
I told you earlier about our day at the Amish but I didn’t show you what I bought…a box of HUGE onions.
At the auction they had a lot of three boxes like this. Â Kayla took one and I took the other two. Â We use so many onions at our house. Â Both Hubby and I love them and well being I am the cook, the rest of the family tolerates them.
This is a lot of onions though so I was trying to think of what to do with them all….that’s when I remembered the wonderful taste of the onions in the bottom of the pan after making Kelli’s Chicken recipe. Â That got me thinking..what if I do something similar with a beef roast and make French Onion Soup…so I did.
I took two of the HUGEST onions I had. Â If using regular onions I’d say use at least four. Â Chop them up and put them in the bottom of a oven dish. Â I used my cast iron one. Â From there…put in a beef roast. Â I added a pack of onion soup mix, a tablespoon of beef bouillon and two cups of water.
I covered it and cooked it all for 2 hours. Â It smelled wonderful. Â I removed the roast…then tasted the onion mix in the bottom of the pan. Â I added a little salt and pepper to taste and just a little more water.
From there I dished up four severing into bowl. Â I put a slice of French Bread on top and put a slice of Swiss cheese over that. Â I put all of the bowls onto a cookie sheet. Â Then into the oven on broil for a few minutes.
It was really good. Â Ever since we went to Chicago for a girls weekend years ago I’ve tried at various times to make some good French onion soup. Â This was the best ever and I am no longer looking for a recipe…this one is it.
Hubby isn’t a soup eater so I wondered what he’s think..he hasn’t even had French Onion Soup before…He really liked it!! Â By the way….the roast was really tasty too!
So what else am doing with all those onions…I can’t have onions like that and not make these homemade onion rings!!