How to Chop an Onion

This blog was originally created several years ago to do what a lot of blogs do, to document our lives. It started one New Years Day when I made a resolution to start a family blog. Like most resolutions it started out with good intent, but began to fizzle out and was neglected. We lived what we thought to be boring lives and our blog began to read like many of my journals, "Let's recap the last 9 months," or "I know I haven't been very good at writing." The blog then took a turn and evolved into me sharing recipes and my passion of cooking and eating. From there it spring boarded into Holli's passion of all things crafty. We now have a culmination of life, food, and crafts. Our little blog has evolved from only documenting our life, to sharing our passions with others. We love doing what we do, but we love sharing it more.

I know not all our readers are master seamstresses and executive chefs, but I'm sure there is a wide range of skill amongst you. Some may not be able to boil water or thread a needle and other's may be able to make a soufle or a wedding dress with their eyes closed. I think sometimes things can seems daunting because we just don't know the fundamentals. I look at Holli's sewing machine and think, "How does anyone know how use this?"  When things seem too overwhelming I think we tend to give up before we try.

So I have decided to bring things back to the basics. I will be including a lot of how-to instruction to many of cookings most basic tasks. I will do my best to explain when, why, and how we do certain things. I have a feeling we will all learn a lot in this process. I am no expert, but I have learned a lot from the internet and cookbooks. So I thought I would pass along some of that information to you. My first instructional how to blog will be on how to chop an onion. I'm also going to talk about the difference of chop, dice and mince.