Caramelized Onion, Garlic and Ginger Soup with Poached Eggs

Normally, summer is a time for cold soup. Sometimes, though, it gets wet and chilly outside and you find yourself curled up in bed wishing for a soup to cure your cold. Well, I've been sick the past couple of days and I decided to create my ultimate remedy for all this dreariness and sniffling.

When I'm sick, I crave a few things: comfort, nourishment, and strong flavours to treat my runny nose and sore throat. I set out to make a soup with potent ingredients to relieve my symptoms which also would require little prep time and ingredients I had available in the kitchen. This soup was inspired by the cold-fighting qualities of garlic and ginger, combined with the more subtle and sweet flavour of French onion soup. I decided to combine the onion technique from that recipe with the Provencal cure-all dish, garlic soup with eggs. The ginger was then added for kicks, literally.