soup is good food

Since we're all sick here, I'm making some onion soup.

Here's my easy version:

Melt a 1/2 stick of butter in a large crock pot, chop up lots & lots of onions. Cook overnight. In the morning, add stock (beef or vegetable, whichever you prefer). Soup should be ready by lunchtime.

You can either serve it with cheese toasts or you can do the whole ovenproof bowl/croutons/shredded mozzerella cheese/broiling thing.

I'm also tempted to make some garlic broth. Good sipping broth for sick people!

had a request for the garlic broth recipe

Garlic Broth Base for Soup

2 small heads of garlic, peeled and crushed
2 teaspoons olive oil
7 cups water

Remove the green little piece in the garlic (it makes the garlic bitter).

In a heavy pot, heat the oil over low heat & add the garlic. Stir the garlic often until it is translucent and soft, do not let the garlic brown. (This will take about 20 minutes or so.)
Pour in 7 cups of water. Bring to a boil at medium heat, then lower heat again and let simmer, uncovered, for 40 minutes. Add salt and pepper to season if you like.

Credit for this recipe goes to Jo from 2DOLLAR-COMPLETE-MEALS-FOR-4.

"...so I could do this at home with a toaster and a bathtub, right?"

Today at physical therapy, I wasn't hooked up to the TENS unit for a change. Instead, I had to place my arm in a tank of water while the aide put a contact patch on my back & dropped some electrodes into the water & switched on some machine in a briefcase.

It didn't hurt, just felt like the tank was full of pins & needles. Or electric eels.

I'm not sure how long I was left like that, since the aide forgot to set the timer. Just as I was starting to feel like my head was full of those same electric eels & the spot on my back was starting to buzz, another aide flew over in (what looked like to me) a panic & turned the thing off & shooed me out the door.

Weird. It took a while for the buzziness to wear off. I hope nothing got screwed up.

ARGH!!!

Who knew there were two different movies called "Chocolat"?!?!?

This is what we wanted.
THIS is what was in the box.