What. A. Day! This morning started well before bright and early, when it was dark and just plain early. The restaurant I’m working on in Dallas is in full swing, so I flew up for a day of meetings and flew right back. Exhaustion would have been justified. But I chose to yoga, grocery shop, and be unexplainably ambitious in the kitchen instead.
Pickled onions. Not just pickled onions for the heck of it. Pickled onions for achiote pork. Neither of which resulted in an immediate food reward. So today, on this busy bee Tuesday, I chose to make a feast of a meal that might just be ready by Thursday. It made no sense, but I rolled with it.
I whipped up this pickled red onion recipe – I was drawn to cinnamon, cloves, and fresh lime. And I sliced, toasted, stirred, and jarred, all the while bopping around to my fav new album by Damaged Bug. Perhaps the song below was the catalyst of tonight’s kitchen ambition.