Article: Caramelized onions a sweet, simple pleasure

The daughter met me at the back door: "What is this stuff?" she asked. It was Monday night, our regular date for her to come over and wash her clothes and then eat dinner and watch "Dexter" (nothing like laundry and a TiVo-ed serial killer for father-daughter bonding).

She had arrived early and, hungry, had dug around in the refrigerator for something to snack on. Finding a pot of my latest hobby, she had smeared some on bread, topped it with a dab of goat cheese and popped it in her mouth.

"It's like it fills your whole mouth with savory!" she said. "How do you make it?"

Well, I told her, you kinda just cook onions. "And then what? What do you add to it?" You just cook onions. That's it.

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