Soooo many onions
Sunday, August 13th, 2006
I ventured back onto the online supermarkets for another round of grocery shopping last week. This time it was Tesco who got the business. They offer cheap (not free) delivery, but in their favour they stock some very specific items that we were after.
It all went swimmingly. Two days later, 15 minutes into the two hour delivery slot, two energetic blokes came bouncing down the stairs, with armfuls of bags, and created a massive grocery obstruction in the hallway. Sign here please and off they go.
I had put a couple of fresh veg items on the list to see how they coped with them. What I was expecting was several courgettes, two brown onions and two red onions. So you can possibly imagine my surprise when I got several courgettes, two brown onions and SIXTEEN red onions! They had an entire shopping bag all to themselves! (Quite necessary given their volume and the fact that they weighed in at 2.7kg!)
After negotiating a partial refund with Tesco’s phone support team, we then had to set about using the onions. Fortunately it was Delia to the rescue with her cool online site of great recipes – and a French onion soup one in particular. Mmmm.
We were never going to get even close to making stock using her recipe for this exercise, but in hindsight, something a little better than Knorr beef stock cubes would have been a ‘slim plan’ as they say in SA.
You can conclude from this that our onion soup had a bit more of the Oxo-type flavour than Delia’s might have had – but it was still very tasty – and the croutons that so elegantly float on top in her picture (ours didn’t look as pretty) – ah wow, these were DEE-licious. Heartily recommend the recipe, just buy some proper beef bouillon or classy stock cubes first. 
Total so far: 4 onions in the soup, 5 given away – just seven to go! (Good thing that soup was so good…)
