When you realize that your husband will be home soon and you haven't yet started dinner, throw some onions in a pan. They'll smell so good when he walks in the door he won't mind dinner being late.

That's a piece of advise my grandmother was once given by a friend. She shared it with me (with a laugh) one night when I was visiting and commented on how good cooking onions smell while we were making dinner. "What do you do with the onions?" I asked. "Oh, just use them." 


At the time I was only learning to really cook and didn't realize just how much you can do with a pan of sizzling onions. Now that I'm a little older and more experienced at making things up in the kitchen I understand what she means.


I have been wanting to make caramelized onions ever since I read this post. I don't have most of the rest of the stuff called for in the recipe but I figured if we had a bowl of delicious onions waiting in the fridge we'd use them in whatever we felt like eating ... and I wanted to smell them cooking.


So tonight I pulled the (giant, like the size of a child's head) onion out of the fridge and sliced up a quarter of it (about a regular sized onions worth) and threw it in a pan.


We ate some of it for dinner with prosciutto on pizza - sweet and salty - and the rest is sitting in the fridge for whatever we want tomorrow.

1. Hot cocoa on a chilly day.
2. Zeke nuffing my legs and asking to be picked up.
3. Abby playing with her toy, instead of the cat, when I tell her to.
4. Lots of leftover roast beef and vegetables in the fridge to feed us all week.
5. A stack of Japanese goodness.


6. That the Japanese craft books read left to right but the magazine reads right to left.
7. Finally having the pattern to make some slippers like these. I'm thinking of linen lined with flannel. They'll be so cute around the house with skirts.
8. Seeing patches of ground as we walked around the lake tonight.
9. Finding the cord for my ipod so I can put some more music on it.
10. Biscuits cooking in the oven, half for dinner and half with sugar on top for breakfast tomorrow.

What do you love today?

Today is my birthday so I'm not at work (yes - I checked with my boss first). Above is what I spent my morning working on and below is my afternoon but right now I'm heading outside to walk Abby in the sunshine. Later this evening we have plansfor sushi and a movie. I hope everyone else is having a lovely day too.