Friday, May 30, 2025

onion soup round two this morning, tweaked slightly.

- melt 3 tbsp of olive oil margarine in a large saucepan (i bought this).
- add one onion (i have two purple onions) and four small cloves of garlic, 2 tbsp of thyme, one tbsp of basil and one tbsp of cayenne pepper. i also put some (onion) salt and pepper in. i then let it cook on medium for 25 minutes.

(note: try it with fresh spicy peppers, habanero maybe, and let me know)

- dump a can of chick peas in a large bowl (not a normal purchase, a food bank specialty)
- i don't have fancy bread, but i broke up two three slices of brown bread that they gave me
- sprinkle some grated cheese on the bread (i'm using mozzarella, which i bought)

- i don't have wine. i do have tamarind soup mix, which they gave me. this is an asian thing. it's a fruit they eat with fish soup. i dumped it into a one quart mixing bowl with a bit of vinegar and stirred it up. it smells like wine.

- after the onions were brown, i dumped the tamarind soup and two beef soup cubes (which they gave me) into the pan and let it come to a boil before reducing heat.
- i let that simmer for about ten fifteen minutes to let it boil off a bit

- i then added the rest of the container of vegetable soup broth they gave me, which filled the pan up, and let it go for another ten minutes, until it was broiling.
- i then filled the pan up with vegetable soup broth. i didn't measure this. i might have used chicken, but i have vegetable broth that is older. i let it come back to a simmer and then sit for another ten minutes.

note that you want to be stirring this regularly through the process from the start.

- i put a tbsp of paprika, a tbsp of cumin and tbsp of hemp seeds (i bought these and put them on everything) in the bowl and dumped the soup in.
- i put all of the mozzarella on top of the soup (i used 200 grams, grated)
- i added some frank's and some more pepper. i would have added a tbsp of nutritional yeast but i'm out.

i am serving it with a side of avocado and orange for key vitamins.