Smachnoho! Bon Appetit!

I love to cook.  I love to eat. And I love to share recipes and talk about cooking.  The perfect moment is cooking in my kitchen surrounded by friends and family.

My daughters have moved out and now have kitchens of their own.   They often call and ask about how to make this or cook that.   They also have started sharing their recipes with me.  (Laura, in Germany, doesn’t have access to all the ingredients in Canada and now cooks in grams.  It makes swapping recipes a bit of a challenge and a lot of fun.)

Last year I collected the family recipes and published a cookbook.  It turns out I wasn’t that great at transferring my knowledge. What seemed perfectly obvious to me, wasn’t. 
I got a few phone calls that started with “Mom, you know that recipe in the cookbook?  You didn’t write what to DO with the ingredients.  What do I do next?”  The family cookbook is  now being copiously annotated and the 2nd edition is in the works.  

In the meantime the suggestion was “You should do a cooking blog”.   I’m not a big fan of following directions and family lore has it  that I can never cook something the same twice. “We’re never going to eat this again, are we?” bemoans Paul, knowing that the recipe I used was ‘just a guideline’.  Maybe a blog will force me to keep track. 

When I cook a meal and don’t know exactly where it’s going, I’ll start by chopping an onion and the rest seems to naturally follow -  thus the name of this blog.  I think it will still be ok to include desserts that don’t use onions.  

And so, for my daughters, my surrogate daughters, and a nephew who all love cooking and eating – just start with an onion.