French Onion Soup (vegetarian)

[onlypigsfly]

Comments

[bigangry]

Yeah, vegans don't use animal products of any kind, including butter and cheese.

[orpheuskiss]

I was going to say the same thing. This is vegetarian, not vegan.

[bigangry]

Looking at the blog, it looks like this is an ESL/lost in translation dealie. She seems to be from Singapore, and it says vegetarian on the site.

Chalk it up to an instance of "I do not think that word means what you think it means..."?

[hugh_mannity]

Ummm... if you're using cheese made with milk, it's not vegan.

[minorloathing]

ahh my favorite sort of vegan recipe, the faux-vegan delicious sort.

[angellic_devil]

so if the first ingredient is butter, and the last ingredient is cheese, it's most definitely not vegan...

[payoffpitch]

This is onion water. Why not just use vegetable broth in place of beef and doctor it up that way? Seems like you'd have to use a lot of butter to get any sort of substance to the soup. Without having tried it, of course, I don't want to sound overly-cynical, but it's not terribly appetizing to me.

[manatees]

Surely the molasses and sherry vinegar would help? I agree that vegetable stock would help, but vegetable stock does not contain the gelatine that meat stock does and so is essentially vegetable water anyway.

[onlypigsfly]

the taste comes mainly from the caramelized onions. the sherry/wine, and vinegar will enhance the flavor.
I have come across a recipe by a french (on food safari) and she doesn't use beef/vegetable broth.
well, different folks, different strokes.