Whew! It's been awhile since the Boss Battle... I did not get a call back for Chopped but yours truly was on a super secret mission culminating in a life and death situation - but I did get to learn the rare Titanium Head technique! Oh yeah, Death called and He/She wanted to talk to His/Her Uncle! On a side note, I gotta start writing about this adventure... maybe I'll post some tidbits on
reddit. My goal is to write a funny/inspirational book dedicating it to Victoria of the Holy Cross Clan. Stay tough! Please keep her in your thoughts and prayers!
In keeping with this theme of toughness, we've all heard of the stereotypical "French tough guy" oxymoron, right? So I'm gonna describe how to make French Onion Soup and make it tough by GRILLING it! Plus, sometimes a ninja is stuck behind enemy lines or in a forest so he's not gonna have a kitchen with him!
Ingredients:
Onions
Chicken Broth (you can use Vegetable or Beef Broth)
White Wine (you can use Red if you go Beef Broth)
Bay Leaves and Thyme (I was too lazy to make a Bouquet Garni).
Honey!!! (not part of traditional recipe but I'll explain later)
Sourdough Bread
Gruyere (Swiss Cheese from Righteous Cheese. Shout out to Carolyn and her Clan!)
Step 1: Combine Broth, Wine, Thyme and Bay Leaf... Pepper and Salt. Sorry, I just threw the ingredients together so it looks kinda messy. Hey, sometimes you gotta cook on the run! Oh, my grill is mobile - I totally endorse this the Coleman Roadtrip. Oh yeah, it took a long time to get the broth to a boil...
Astute readers with mad surveillance skillz will notice limited shrubbery! So where's the forest??? Umm... it's called the Urban Jungle, folks!
Step 2: In the classic recipe, you coat the onions with flour and then carmelize in a saute pan. Since we are doing it on the grill, I had to counteract the bitterness from the grill marks on the onions... the solution was to coat the onions with honey!!! (I couldn't do sugar because I'm guessing the sugar would just burn on the open flames.)
Astute readers will notice that I hit a pig with my car, errr... a slayed a wild boar with my deadly bare-handed fighting techniques so I threw Italian Sausages on the grill too!
Step 3: In the classic recipe, you put bread on the broth and cover it with cheese and send it through a broiler or salamander. I forgot to take pictures (hey, "Don't Drink and Drive" but "Drinking and Grilling" is socially acceptable). but I grilled the cheese on the bread.
Grilled French Onion Soup!
