Winter Soups pt2 - Crockpot French Onion Soup
This is another one of those "keeps you warm on a cold night" soups. It's remarkably simple to do, and mostly involves knife work and patience. Crockpot French Onion Soup Ingredients 10 + large onions or equivalent 4 tbsp butter olive oil salt 6 cups broth (see Note 1) (approx - depends on your crock pot) 1 cup red wine - something you like drinking 1 cup brandy 1 tbsp herbes de provence (or a mix of thyme and any other herbs you feel like) sliced swiss or gruyere cheese Tools: Knife (make sure it's sharp, and you'll want a big slicer or santoku) cutting board frying pan crock pot Instructions 1. Slice up the onions. ALL of them. My work process was to cut each onion in half, chop the ends, remove the brown skin, and move on until ALL the onions were prepped. Then come back and slice them into ~1/8" wide strip cuts. Prepping out the onions 2. Working in batches in the frying pan, saute the onions until soft and browned. For each batch, use some of the but...
