Kick Ass Onion Soup.

Gentle Readers, this will be a sublime dish.
Onion Soup a la Hawthorne.

Let's begin with the leftover half of pizza dough, albeit blurred, left to rise.

Looky, looky! My dough rose!

I punched it down, kneaded it,
then placed it in a buttered meatloaf pan, and salted and peppered it.
 Then at 9 this morning, I found the raw dough in the microwave.
 I forgot all about the dough last night.
So's, I heated up the oven, and cooked the bread.
At nine this morning.
And this is the loveliness I got.
 I know. It's got a sag in the middle.
 But, this bread IS.TO.DIE.FOR.

I sliced the bread.

Buttered it. And fought for this slice with Mr. Hawthorne.

Look at the see through. Bubbles from the yeast.
 From the overnight rising.

Let's move on to dinner. I took out my beef consomme.

OK. I'll get back on track.
 We're making French Onion Soup tonight
. OH, SCRATCH THAT.
We're making Hawthorne Soup!

Onion slices go into butter.

Salt and pepper and stir around.

Deglaze with some red wine.

Stir it up.

Slice Rosie's homemade bread.

Top bread with cheese slices. And throw into the toaster/broiler.

Add caramelized onions to beef consomme.

OMG!!!!!!!!
 Mr. Hawthorne just SANDRALEE'D it.
 He added Lipton onion soup mix to my HOMEMADE BEEF CONSOMME!!!!
 I feel faint.
Kill me now.
 Someone, catch me.
 I'm falling. Whew, Rosie.
 Take a deep breath.
Or maybe you should breathe into a bag and not hyperventilate.
 Mr. Hawthorne just ROSIEHAWTHORNED it.
 Yes, he RosieHawthorned it.
He added my 3-day, carefully tended, coddled, veal stock
 to the beef consomme.
 Mr. H., You are semi-homemade-redeemed.
Will a RosieHawthorne counter out a SandraLee?

Here are my homemade bread slices with melted cheese.

Mr. Hawthorne turned the bread/cheese slices upside down in my souffle dish.

Pour the oniony, beefy, stocky business onto the toasty bready upsidedowny cheesy thingies.

Lookin' good.

Top the onion soop with toasty magnificence.
 My homemade bread, toasted, goes on top.

Mr. Hawthorne strategically places slices of cheese on top of the bread toasts.

Oh!!! It looks like a souffle.

Cut into the soop.
 Is this Onion Soup not beautiful?

This was SUBLIME
 Absolutely delicious.

You won't find a French Onion Soup on a menu anywhere as delicious as this one was.

Oh My. Oh My.
This is French Onion Soop?
No. It's Hawthorne Soop!
And it's freakin' delicious.