Soup in your Wine

The French Onion Soup was a great success. It had one of my favourite ingredients in it – wine. I love when I read the recipe and it asks for some wine because that means I can justify opening a bottle during the working week - not that I actually need an excuse to be honest. Last night I needed that wine to get me through the onion cutting stage. I had to chop up two of the biggest onions I have ever seen and they made the tears flow like no onions have ever done before. All I kept thinking as I was chopping (and slurping wine) was that the soup better be worth the tears. And I can categorically say that the soup was definitely worth it.

I was feeling very virtuous yesterday and I was going to just have soup for dinner. I was going to be the picture of health. I decided that J and I needed to test the wine before I used it in the cooking. Two glasses down and the cooking gets underway. To get over all the trauma of all the tears during chopping I treated myself to another glass. Then it was time to add the wine to the soup and that just left a little wine in the bottom of the bottle. I thought it would be rude to leave that so I finished it off too. Then J came into the kitchen and was very confused as to where all the wine had gone. I told him it was in the soup, hic. As he was mentally prepared for another glass he decided to open a second bottle. Now I love the idea of having a few glasses of wine and then leaving the rest for the next day but that NEVER happens in our house. It’s like some sort or unwritten rule that we religiously adhere to. This rule meant that we would definitely be finishing off another bottle of wine.

The recipe for the soup said “if it's extra-cold outside, add a couple of tablespoons of Cognac!” and I like to think I am good at following recipes so I added that cognac and then some more just in case. All that lovely alcohol made the soup divine but it was by no means healthy. Now can someone please hand me the Panadol.

The recipe for the French Onion Soup came from Delia