Food Network: Oh So Good French Onion Soup

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Oh So Good French Onion Soup
Recipe courtesy Rachael Ray

Ingredients
1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil
2 tablespoons butter
6 medium onions, thinly sliced
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
2 teaspoons fresh thyme, picked and chopped or poultry seasoning
1 bay leaf, fresh or dried
1/2 cup dry sherry
6 cups beef stock
4 thick slices crusty bread, toasted
2 1/2 cups shredded Gruyere or Swiss cheese

Instructions
Heat a deep pot over medium to medium high heat. Work
next to the stove to slice onions. Add oil and butter to the pot. Add onions to
the pot as you slice them. When all the onions are in the pot, season with salt
and pepper and 1 teaspoon fresh thyme. Cook onions 15 to 18 minutes, stirring
frequently, until tender, sweet and caramel colored. Add bay leaf and sherry to
the pot and deglaze the pan drippings. Add 6 cups stock and cover pot to bring
soup up to a quick boil.

Arrange 4 small, deep soup bowls or crocks on a cookie sheet. Preheat broiler to
high. Once soup reaches a boil, ladle it into bowls. Float toasted crusty bread on
soup and cover each bowl with a mound of cheese. Sprinkle remaining fresh thyme on
cheese and place cookie sheet with soup bowls on it under hot broiler until cheese
melts and bubbles.