Witchy Chicks, Soup, and the Nature of Life
I’m over at the Witchy Chicks this morning, guest-blogging about writing paranormal. A big thank-you to the Chicks, especially Yasmine Galenorn, for inviting me!
Today I shall be trying something I have not tried before. No, it’s not rollerblading or skydiving. No, it’s not demon-hunting (done that) or recreational drinking (can’t do that anymore, got kids) or lumberjacking. Oh no.
No, today I shall be making French Onion soup, from a Mastering the Art of French Cooking recipe. Because I am completely and utterly insane. Wish my poor desperate soul luck.
If I may get philosophical…Life doesn’t just throw one thing at you. It throws a bunch of crap at you and hopes something sticks in between long periods of not-much. Since it is in the nature of life, I guess I can’t complain. Or I could, but it wouldn’t do any good.
Over and out.
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Tags: fellow weirdnesses, foodening, pennyworth advice, Writing (About)
June 11th, 2009 at 10:46 am
you will make divine soup, you are multi-talented.
June 11th, 2009 at 12:08 pm
French onion soup is one of those delightful things that seems so much more complicated to make than it actually turns out to be. I’m sure Julia Child’s variation has a little more character and difficulty than the recipe we use in our family, but in my experience it’s surprisingly simple for such a complex-tasting dish.
Good luck! I’m sure it will be fine. And if by chance it doesn’t turn out, at least you’ll have an interesting story to tell us tomorrow.
June 11th, 2009 at 3:37 pm
Onions… *swoons* I’d kill to for some onion soup, I haven’t had it in ages.
June 12th, 2009 at 2:13 am
This is going to be about something weird about cookbooks. Or, about a cookbook we had. A fairly new cookbook, as inless than 5 years old. My daughter (25) likes to bake when she can. Because of budget problems, she can’t always experiment, so when she tries a new recipe, it’s out of a cookbook and she follows the recipe to the letter, (she’ll make changes later, after she uses it the first time.) So tonight most of my (admittedly) grown children were hanging at home, when my daughter decided to make
Hope it goes better for you!
strawberry shortcake. She followed this recipe faithfully, with the last of our butter, after scrounging change for light cream, etc. The granddaughter (2 yrs) helped and they had a lot of fun (good thing). Well after waiting for it to be done, mouths watering we finally got to have some strawberry shortcake. It was awful. Tasted like those bakery cookies, the ones with way too much baking powder or soda. She double checked the recipe. It called for 1 TABLESPOON of baking soda. Ewwww,yuk. It has to have been a misprint. She checked other recipes in the book that were similar- one TEASPOON. They had fun baking, but she learned a lesson. Books can be wrong, and if a average size recipe calls for that much baking soda, it’s probably too much.
It’s just ironic that I read your post about using a recipe, the same evening we used a dud recipe.
June 15th, 2009 at 12:37 pm
The secret to great onion soup is slowly carmelizing the onions. The slower the better – mmmmmmmm