Vegetarian French Onion Soup

Roomie and I have been having a hankering for French Onion Soup, and we had a friend over for dinner so we decided to make it!

Mollie Katzen's French Onion Soup Recipe from is such a classic. It's like a no brainer to make at this point.

Melt about 3 TBSP butter in a big pot.

Take a **** ton of onions - 5 -7 of them, depending on the size. Slice them up, then. You have to use white or yellow, not red.

Put the onions in a pot and start frying. and then you fry and fry and fry forever.

after about 10 minutes, add 1 TBSP thyme (dry or fresh.) and about 1-2 tsp dry mustard (or if you don't have it, whatever mustard you have)

And then, fry it for 30 minutes or so.

Add 5-6 cups of good quality Veggie broth

2 Tablespoons Soy Sauce

2 Tablespoon White Wine (or, you know, as much as you need to help the taste, with a good portion left over to drink ;)

Some fresh pepper

Simmer for about 10 minutes until heated through. Soup's done!

So the thing about French Onion Soup that makes it so delicious is that you have cheese melted/broiled on the top. Well you do if you have oven safe bowls. For those among us that are still using the random collection of bowls that you've gleaned over the years, and are afraid of what chemicals might leak should you put them in the oven, you can use the following method.

take some bread, cover it in swiss. Turn the oven on to broil.

Broil those suckas up! About 2-3 mins should be fine, or until the cheese is nice and melty.

You know, I've been thinking about going vegan for lent. but i'm really really really not sure I can do it. (as my mom helpfully reminded me - most chocolate has milk. thanks mom). It's mostly cheese that's holding me back. That and the brownies that seem to be made 3x a week in this house. Is it any wonder I've picked up running?

Anyway - put the bread in a bowl, and add the soup on top! Enjoy!