Today we were at the Holiday Market. I was in the Lodge selling and spinning wool, but Tom was outside in the cold pressing apples into cider. So when we got home we were cold, Tom more than I. Onion soup seemed like a good idea so I made this one. Here it is cooking:
This soup was really good. It was actually sweet and you could taste the onions. Both Tom and I agree that this is the best onion soup we have had, and we have had quite a few in fancy and otherwise restaurants. And it was perfect for a cold day. Here’s Tom’s before consumption (with wheat rather than French bread):
Regarding the Maison Blanc, per googling, in the mid-1920’s, Charles Joseph Ernest Blanc turned the Stacy mansion, built in 1885 by Martin Van Buren and Elizabeth Stacy, into La Maison Blanc Restaurant. Before its turn as a restaurant, the building also housed the Seattle Chamber of Commerce and a luxury boarding house. It was famous for serving delicacies such as turtle steak, reindeer meat, frogs’ legs, escargot and eel. The interior was damaged by a fire in 1960, and the building was demolished two months later. The spot is now the Fourth and Madison Building, formerly the IDX Tower, a 40-story skyscraper.
You Can't Eat Mount Rainier! 