Soup Day
We got our last CSA delivery of the year today and it was HUGE, so we used all the turnip/beet greens, odds and ends of celery, carrots, leeks, etc. to throw together 3 batches of homemade veggie stock. We made a basic stock, Mexican stock, and ambiguously-Asian stock. Stocks were inspired by Deborah Madison’s Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone.
Feeling ambitious after that successful pad thai, I decided to try a new twist on a recipe I had tried to adapt to my vegetarian tastes last year: French Onion Soup. The last time around, I used the wrong type of sherry and did not let the onions caramelize before adding the rest of the ingredients. This time around, I used an actual recipe from one of my new favorite vegetarian blogs, which you can find here: http://www.fresh365online.com/recipes/2009/12/13/3-onion-soup.html
I bought a pack of these tiny little one-to-two inch diameter rolls from Trader Joe’s and sliced them in half, then broiled them with Swiss cheese on top. The one thing we didn’t have around the house was green onion, but I didn’t even miss it. Justin and I both agreed that this was a very successful French onion soup adaptation.
