Cry Me a River [17/52]

My first 52 week installment into the new year. It feels glorious.

 

In the last picture I uploaded on Flickr I made mention that I was going to make French Onion Soup today. Being the proactive fellow that I am, I made a grocery run yesterday evening in preparation for today.

 

One of the main ingredients in this "French Onion soup" is well ... onions. Recently, I've been dreading cutting onions because the caustic fumes have been killing my eyes (never really bothered me before). Hey, I'm here to keep it real. I ain't no chump, but this little bulbous root kicked my butt! The onions don't even necessarily make me cry, though sometimes my eyes do get watery; more than anything, my eyes burn. Last time my eyes burned so bad, I found myself in the bathroom flushing my eyes out with water for ten minutes. Bad times.*

 

Now that you all know about the lovely attachment I have to onions, I can easily say that I was naturally a bit hesitant to cut three large onions for todays soup. Maybe it wouldn't be that bad this time around. I was wrong. So wrong.

 

My eyes burned for a good while (only one onion in!). My tears were invisible, believe me. But it had to be done. This soup was not about to make itself, right? Right! Marching onwards, soon as I got these bad boys [onions] all chopped up I sautéed them for half an hour. They smelled so good as they slowly began to caramelize.

 

To make a long story short, the soup turned out awesome. My mom liked it too -and this says a lot. My mom and I ended up having this soup for dinner with a some mean grilled cheese sandwiches we whipped up. In addition to the soup, I toasted some slices of french bread topped with a melted a parmesan and gruyere cheese mix.

 

What is your favorite soup? French Onion soup is pretty high on my list, next to fresh clam chowder!

 

I am getting a bit excited for a trip to Las Vegas -I will be leaving for on the 15th of this month.

I haven't been there since I was ... four feet tall, haha. I am going with Molly, and her sister. Quite frankly, I don't remember much of anything pertaining to Las Vegas. So I have that to look forward to later this month.

 

I hope this new year has started off well for all of you! I also look forward to following all of you this year! Keep shootin' everyone!

 

Oh, and by the way, while on the brief topic of shooting. I thought it might be kind of cool to meet some of you. Maybe, some of you fellow Flickr-roo's from the Bay Area. Not that I don't want to meet those of you who don't hail from the Bay Area (I would love to), but understand I'm coming from a reasonable local point of view for convenience and practicality sake. We should all get together and shoot sometime.

 

*insert face palm

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Lighting: Ambient from skylight pictured, window subject right camera left, Canon 430EX immediate camera right shoot thru @ 1/4 triggered via poverty wizards.

 

52

Done