AT THE WATER’S EDGE:

So, I have to be honest. I am not sure that I have ever tried French Onion Soup before tonight. It always sounded intriguing, but looked kind of weird, so I shied away. I’ve been searching for interesting recipes for my new handy dandy Crock Pot I got for Christmas, and I came across this recipe for French Onion Soup.  It sounded delicious, but the slow cooker is mostly for work days, and I definitely didn’t have time to caramelize onions in the morning.  So, I searched for a different recipe, and found this one. As usual, there were parts of each recipe that sounded better to me (or that fit the available ingredients on hand — let’s be honest: I was looking up these recipes last night at 11pm when I suddenly realized recipe 1 wouldn’t work for the morning!).  So, I kind of combined the two and came out with this:

This is Tom’s latest home brew that I used in the recipe!

Ingredients:

• 3 1/2 large sweet onions, sliced thinly
• 8 cups beef broth
• 1 cup beer (I used Tom’s latest home brew!)
• 2 Tbsp. balsamic vinegar
• 2 tsp. minced garlic
• 4 Tbsp. butter
• A few small sprigs of fresh rosemary and thyme (from the little that I have growing in my sun room…er…living in my sun room. Any growth right now is debatable.)
• Crusty bread (I think I had a ciabatta loaf)
• Gouda cheese
  

So easy! Hardest part is slicing onions…