French Onion Soup

And mini cocottes.

I would call them mini casseroles

but I just GTS and it seems 

part of what makes a 

cocotte

a 

cocotte

are it's two handles. 

Hmm.

I love all things 

mini

as well as all thing

Le Creuset

as well as all things 

Shanna, 

so what a perfect combination.

Mini 

Le Creuset

cocottes

from

Shanna! 

And here is my inaugural 

foray into 

mini cocottes:

French onion soup.

The cocottes came with a cookbook

so I took their recipe, 

Googled recipes, 

and came up with this.

It was great!

Here's what I did;

I sliced up A LOT 

of onions and then sautéed them in 

4 tablespoons of butter for 35 minutes, 

not a minute less!

All the flavor gets developed here so you just can't

skimp on the time.

The I added some dried thyme leaves, 

a splash of red wine, 

a couple of dashes of worcestershire sauce 

and enough beef stock 

to bring it to a nice consistency

and then simmered it a bit to reduce down.

 I transferred it into the cocottes

with a toasted baguette slice 

and grated swiss cheese on top

and put them under the broiler to brown up.

So good!