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[threeplusfire]

Alan spent more than five hours cooking today, producing the onion soup and beef croquettes. My husband is sometimes a little mad. Who else would put a beautiful prime ribe eye steak in the food processor with bread crumbs and make a giant meatball? He portioned it out into croquettes, which were served with a garlic dill aoili. (Homemade aoili at that.)

It's amazing how much good the soup is with carmelized onions and some cognac. All this rich food only makes me want to go back to sleep. So so so incredibly good. I married well, that's for damn sure.

Now some delicious port, and bed time.

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[delchi.livejournal.com]

Tell him , that I command him in the name of queen and country to devilge the complete how-to on both the soup and the croquettes!

Please ? :)

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

The soup was pretty simple - we actually saw it on the food network with Emeril. The secret is to carmelize all the onion, cooking them for at least 45 minutes until they are a big sticky onion mass. Once that part is done, splash in some cognac, let the alcohol burn off, and then start adding your beef stock.

As for the croquettes, he just trimmed a rib eye steak, and then chopped the meat before throwing it in the food processor. Then he mixed with with bread crumbs, and some herbs. It sat in the fridge for awhile as the soup finished, and then he just threw them in the pan with some olive oil. Fried them quickly, not unlike crab cakes.

Hope that helps!

[holdmycoat.livejournal.com]

Add a splash of balsamic vinegar to the beef. Make sure you get prime or choice meat. Not that select stuff they sell at grocery stores.

[delchi.livejournal.com]

HAve you tried the BH Cohn Rasberry champagne vinegar?