Onion Soup with Tomato & a Poached Egg

I was enticed to try this from SoutherCooker's review. Alas, my rendition was nothing to write home, errr, to cookbooker about.

I was unable to locate duck fat, so had to use olive oil, I didn't have the optional salty confit gelée so had to skip that, and I didn't have salt-cured salt cod (also optional). But I did make a fresh batch of Zuni chicken stock just for this soup.

To me, the soup tasted pretty bland. I added more salt and more pepper, but that wasn't enough to rescue this. My advice would be to add at least one of the optional ingredients.

I raised my rating to 4 because my husband loved this dish. Maybe sitting on the back burner for an additional hour helped meld the flavors.

On the plus side - it was easy to make, and I was surprised at how much I liked the egg!

I am so thankful for this challenge. I don't think I would have tried this one had it not been for that. That would have been a shame since I would have missed a wonderful soup. My eyes sure have been opened with this challenge... poached eggs in soup and balsamic eggs with vinegar.

I made a half recipe for my daughter and I since I didn't think leftovers would be that good. We loved it. She said it's like a really good onion soup with a poached egg instead of Swiss cheese. Wonderful meal for a cold winter night. I'll be making this one again and again.

I had to add this to my review. My daughter told me yesterday she made this soup, enough for just her, almost every day last week for her lunch. She's addicted.

After reading Queezle_Sister's review I realized I should have added that I also used olive oil instead of duck fat (can't find that around here) and I didn't use any of the optional ingredients.