It's What's Up Wednesday!

Well, I had my power restored Monday evening, which meant a backlog of laundry and tidying needed to be done. If only I could find the housecleaning fairy. Alas, she was nowhere to be found, so I was stuck doing it myself. 

In between loads of laundry, I was hanging out with my alliums.

I finally got a chance to dig up the shallots I grew. They are now curing in the garden shed. And it was time to pull the onions up before they could split from all the rain. This was my first year growing cipollini onions. Oh, my goodness, these are going to be in regular rotation from now on. I love cooking with them, and they were no less difficult to grow than other onions.

Needless to say, everything smells like onions right now, including my car, as my daughter and son-in-law were kind enough to let me spread out the onion harvest in their nice, big shed to cure. 

We have a family joke that whenever something cooking smells good, it must be onions. 

For years, my eldest son did not like onions and would pick them out of whatever food I put them in. Yet, any time I would start sautéing onions for a dish, he would come wandering into the kitchen, following his noise and say, “What are you cooking? It smells so good.” I would point to the pan, and he would look disappointed. 

Now, whenever something smells good in the kitchen, and someone asks what it is, we all chorus, “Must be onions.”

He finally came around to enjoying onions, which is a good thing because we had a bumper crop this year. Now that the onions have been dealt with, I think it’s time to pick blueberries, which got me thinking about the varieties I would like to plant in my backyard. I'm a sucker for huge blueberries.