My dad has two house specialties, beef bourguignon and french onion soup.
I can remember him spending the entire day in the kitchen, and I looked forward to this meal all year.
I do not order onion soup at restaurants, and have never before today (well actually last Saturday) made it myself. When I saw that this would be my second French Fridays with Dorie recipe I was both excited and nervous. How could my soup possibly live up to my dad’s?
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| lots of onion slicing |
YES…there will be crying
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| still cooking |
YES…your house will smell like onions for days – even with all those expensive candles
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| Almost ready |
YES…you will have to be VERY patient - wine helps
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| Finally |
YES…it is absolutely worth it!
So what are you waiting for.
Enjoy
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Great looking soup. I agree, it was absolutely worth it. And…my house still smells like onions.
Very nice!
Fortunately, I was able to enlist an onion cutter upper. Huge bonus.
Sounds like your dad has some pretty great house specialties up his sleeve!
Ah! I definitely had a glass or two of the wine that was added into the broth. Great post!
Such a cute post!!! So glad this was up to your expectations…I enjoyed it, too
Both of those recipes are hubby’s favorite. With this recipe I conquered
the onion soup, now on to the beef bourguignon. Years ago, Knorrs
made a package to add to beef stew to turn it into bourguignon for
the taste and flavors, but they discontinued it. Someday I will try
a recipe from scratch. Yours looks great.
I don’t think I had enough patience for this recipe. I gave up on the onions after an hour, so the results were not what they should have been!
What a nice tribute to your dad to blog about his specialty recipes–maybe you and he will have to have a French onion soup-off next?
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Your soup looks excellent! I’m so glad you thought it was worth it. It’s fun to know I wasn’t the only one making tartlets and soup at the same time!
Wine has such great therapeutic qualities. Looks like this was a huge succes for you!