As much as I hate winter, and especially this inversion we are experiencing here, I do love how it gets you in the mood for a good bowl of soup. I can really eat soup year round, but somehow, it just isn’t the same when the temperature is 90 degrees outside versus a chilly 20 degrees. A good bowl of soup will warm you from the inside out and leave you feeling satisfied like many other foods could never do. In fact, when many people are having a bad day, they reach for the chocolate, but I really think that a warm bowl of soup has the same effect on me. I could spend most winter nights cuddled on the couch in a big blanket with a bowl of soup, and I’d be a happy girl.
So needless to say, I’m always drawn to soup recipes. In fact, just this morning I saw this recipe, and now I can’t stop thinking about it. (Maybe that will be dinner tonight!!) And with the chill of winter in full force right now, I can’t think of a better time to break out the soup recipes.
This soup was delicious. Really, we all know that anything with bacon is delicious, but I really liked this recipe. The popovers, on the other hand – I didn’t really love them. But I didn’t really care, because I really loved this soup. And it really takes so few ingredients – and ingredients that I usually have on hand!!
I guess even though I’m not loving the winter, at least I can satisfy myself with soup!!
A chowder filled with onion flavor, plus bacon! Served with Cheesy Onion Popovers.
Ingredients
- 1 pound sliced bacon, chopped
- 4 white onions, chopped
- salt
- 1 1/4 cups flour
- 1 32-ounce container chicken broth
- 2 cups milk
- 2 large eggs
- 2 tablespoons butter, melted
- 2 ounces cheddar cheese, cut into 12 1/2-inch cubes
- 1/4 cup finely chopped chives
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 425 degrees.
- Grease a standard 12-cup muffin pan.
- In large Dutch oven, cook the bacon over medium heat until crisp, about 12 minutes. Using a slotted spoon, transfer to paper towels to drain. Add the onions to the pot, season with salt and cook for 8 minutes. Set aside 1/4 cup of the cooked onions. Sprinkle the remaining onions with 1/4 cup flour and cook, stirring, for 1 minute. Stir in the chicken broth and bring to a boil, lower the heat and simmer for 8 minutes.
- Meanwhile, in blender, mix the reserved onions, 1 cup milk, the remaining 1 cup flour, the eggs, butter and 1/4 t salt until smooth. Fill each muffin cup halfway with batter and place a cube of cheese in center of each. Bake for 25 minutes, then lower the heat to 350 degrees; bake for 15 minutes more.
- Stir in the remaining 1 cup milk into the soup and heat through.
- Garnish with bacon and chives.
- Serve with the popovers.
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- From Everyday with Rachael Ray November 2008
Being a fellow soup lover I just know that this soup must have been delicious!
what are you doing still posting?? Where’s that baby??????????
Enjoy the onion soup while you can.. Onions are another thing you shouldn’t eat while you are nursing!!
I realllly hope you get a nice calm baby that isn’t effected by that kind of stuff!
Yum, I love soup too! This looks wonderful!
looks delicious! i love soup in the winter…i always crave it!
I totally love soup too! Yours looks terrific!
That soup does look fantastic. I always thought popovers were supposed to be hollow in the middle
Totally scrumptious! Both the chowder and popovers look fantastic!
Cheers,
Rosa
Looks delicious. Just right for this kind of cold weather.
Deb, we are soup lovers too and yours looks very delish
hey this looks easy and yummy! I so want to try this tonight! Thanks.
what an interesting chow-dah! eating tasty soups like this is the only way i can survive the winter.
Ohhhh yeahhh, I’m a soup girl for sure. This looks terrific! I’ve never really had an onion chowder … onion soup, but not chowder. By the way, I ate regular meals (healthy) while I was breastfeeding my youngest daughter. I ate everything … Thai food, onions, garlic, etc. … without any ill effects on my wee one. In fact, she’s now 9 and is my least picky eater. She eats just about everything. Just my experience … everyone’s different … plus I don’t get bothered by those foods, so it makes sense my little one didn’t either.
That really looks fantastic and hearty. And I love that its served alongside Popovers. Baby is eating well.
Sounds delicious! There’s nothing like soup to warm you up :_
Yum! This looks soo good! I, too, love soup! It’s the perfect meal and I can even do it in the summer time.
That soup looks wonderful. I love onion soup, and that you also get popovers with this recipe is a bonus.
“Onion Popovers”? You must be joking. It’s the best name ever.
Deborah this looks so good.And since it has been snowing here in PA for well over a week (come on,spring!) I am making soups for lunch just about every day.This one is next!
How yummy! I love the idea of onion chowder!
Shoot! Anything with a pound of bacon for 6 servings is GONNA be GOOD! Duh!
I like this idea of an onion chowder.
What a yummy meal! The cheesy onion popovers look so good.
That looks like a fantastic flavorful soup. Wonder if I could get my kids to eat it. Hmmmm.
Love that photo, by the way!
The soup looks beautiful! I’d take it with the panini from the previous post
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Do you add the onions to the bacon pan with the grease? Or a new pan? Im kind of confused by that part sorry lol. Looks delish tho and I plan on making it tonight for supper.
@Rose, you add the onions into the bacon grease that is left in the pan. The grease is the fat you will use to cook the onions. I hope you love it!