Super Quick Pasta Recipe

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Soupe à l'oignon

Wintertime is soup time and my favorite soup is the original french "Soupe à l'oignon", not only because it reminds me of my time in Paris - No, it's also easy to cook it at home.  

Ingredients

4 - 5 large onion, sliced thin

clarified butter

trice of sugar 

1 clove of garlic

1 tbsp. flour 

300 ml white wine

1,2 l beef stock

1 bay leaf

300 gr. Gruyere

1 Baguette, sliced

Use a large pot and melt the clarified butter than add the onions, the sugar and the garlic and cook until the onions are slightly brown and caramelized, takes about 20 minutes over medium heat. Now add the flour and the white wine, bring that to boil and then reduce the heat. Let it cook for a few minutes before you add the beef stock, fresh black pepper and the bay leaf. Now it's almost done, let the soupe cook for 30 minutes. During that time preheat the oven and put the slices of bread inside till they are golden-brown. Now ladle the soup into the bowls (makes about 4-5 bowls) top them with three slices of bread and the Gruyere cheese. Put the bowls inside the oven and let the cheese gratinate under the upper heat (3-5 minutes).

Voilà, enjoy your Soupe à l'oignon.

Blueberry Pancakes

Ingredients

300 g Flour

4 Eggs (seperate the egg white from the yolk)

½ Package of Backing Powder

1 Vanilla Pod

3 Tblsp. Sugar

Pinch of Salt

200 ml Milk

300 ml Jogurt

Blueberries

Take a bigger bowl and combine the flour, baking soda, yolk, milk and yogurt. Use an electric whisk to mix them together till it's smooth. Gradually add the sugar, salt and the pure vanilla. Now prepare the beaten egg white and fold it gently into the dough and add the blueberries. Let the dough rest for 10 minutes. Now get the pan really hot, then turn the heat down to medium and do a test pancake to see if you need to add a bit more sugar or whatever you think is missing. While you are baking the pancakes it can get a bit boring so don't forget to play music. 

Serve the Pancakes hot with maple sirup or icing sugar.

Just to let you know I was listening to Damien Rice. 

  

Bon appétit!