French Onion Soup

I like a good French onion soup.  Apparently, so do restaurants, because they charge a pretty penny for it.

My Sainted wife and I thought "How hard can this be - throw some grilled onions into beef broth, a little bread on top, and cover with Gruyere."

A lousy 4 ingredients - what could go wrong?  Well, as it turns out, lots.  The cheese sank out of sight before we could even stick the soup bowls under the broiler, the bread sucked up all the soup, all hell seemed to break loose (culinarily speaking).

Those restaurant soups aren't looking so bad anymore.