Today's post

is simply because I was reading other blogs, lamenting the lack of updates, and then realized you have to give to get. Though, really, I'm not giving that much.

I'd like to give a Lava Hot Springs trip report, but seriously, it would come off as bragging. How can a trip be that fun, you'd ask. Especially if this is a picture of the town's Main Street:



And then I would say things about "blooming where you're planted," and "it's not where you are, it's who you're with" and then I'd post pictures of me drinking with a bison or dancing with underage girls, and you'd have no choice but to believe me.

So instead, today I will do a cooking blog. (Any foodies out there say "Aii Oohhh!")On Monday, I made chicken noodle soup. Because I have a cold. Rather than make my usual chicken noodle soup, I decided to do a "fusion." I added some Thai elements. My recipe went something like one large onion, 5 cans low sodium/no fat chicken broth, five carrots, four celery, juice of two lemons, bay leaf, three clove garlic, Mrs. Dash No Sodium citrus blend seasoning, one package Grandma's old fashioned noodles. The fusion part: I added the juice of one lime, and a seeded, sliced poblano pepper. And I went one step further, I put a few stems of leafy cilantro into the soup after I removed it from the burner and let it infuse the soup for a few minutes and then I pulled it out. I thought it was delicious.

All was not well in the kitchen, however. For quite a while now, I've been pretty certain that my onion chopping skills are sub-par. I'm really just not an efficient onion chopper. I thought about asking someone like my dad or Stella for an onion chopping tutorial, but instead just opted to Google it. "How to chop an onion," I googled. What did I learn? I've been chopping onions all wrong. You don't cut the onion in half horizontally (i.e. separating the stem end from the root end). Instead, you cut the onion in half vertically. Then you peel the two halves and begin your chopping. The onion is easier to handle that way.

Well, easier for some! I chopped the top of my thumb off. Not the whole top. Just a divot. But nevertheless a bonafide kitchen injury. My onion chopping skills are thus still sub-par.

Okay, update your blogs everyone.

Today's Song: Sweetest Girl, Wyclef Jean with Akon and Lil Wayne