Thanks! I will give both recipes a try

Carole

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One other nice dish with onions is the Alsassian onion pie.


Will have to try the recipe above sometime and I'm going to give your French
onion soup recipe a go this afternoon.

Talking onion recipes, I have a really delicious onion tarte recipe, it's
one of my absolute favourites:


Roll out 250g fresh ready-made shortcrust pastry and line a 24cm
loose-bottomed quiche/flan tin. Prick base of pastry and leave to chill for
30 mins.

Heat 40g butter and add 700g thinly sliced onions and 75g chopped mushrooms.
Sweat over low heat for about 25 mins until tender. Add 1 tbsp water to pan
if onion starts to brown.

Add 2 beaten eggs to onion and mushrooms and stir in 50g Parmesan cheese (if
i can't get hold of vegetarian Parmesan I add around 90g mature cheddar), 1
tsp dried sage and salt and pepper to taste. Mix well.

Spoon onion mixture into prepared pastry case.

Bake in preheated oven, 180�C/350�F/Gas Mark 4, for about 20-30 mins or
until tart has just set.

Leave to cool slightly in the tin. Serve warm or cold.



Tracey

Carole wrote:
Do you have a good recipe for French Onion soup? If so, please share

I find that the key to good French Onion soup is to use at least two
kinds of booze. Red wine plus a good cider (hard cider, for the
Americans); or white wine plus brandy, or red wine plus cider plus
brandy. Obviously you only need a little brandy, and more of the wine
or cider. Also, make sure to cook the onions until they're
well-caramelised and collapsed. Finally, a good veggie stock helps a
lot. I use Touch of Taste brand, which is just as good as home-made.

Kake