Making broccoli soup

[conuly]

Don't actually have a recipe, but I've got the onions cooking while I find one. Any recipe is going to start with "Saute onions until translucent", right?

Edit: YUM!

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Comments

[larryhammer]

Any soup recipe that doesn't start with "saute onions until translucent" is suspect until proven delicious despite this.

[conuly]

Indeed, any non-dessert recipe that doesn't start that way gets a sideeye from me.

[larryhammer]

I have to be careful about extending the rule -- a lot of East Asian cooking doesn't start with, or even include, onions. (Except, sometimes, green onions as garnish.)

[penpusher]

Based on the date listed for this post, I feel a little like a time traveler!

[conuly]

I don't like having gaps in my calendar. I used to go back and edit the dates afterwards, but it turns out to be a lot easier to just post entries with advanced dates.

[adrian_turtle]

A big problems with Tasers is that they are sold as a safe alternative to shooting a person who's running, or standing across the room. Or shooting rubber bullets into a crowd. Or tackling and choking somebody on the sidewalk. Or beating a person unconscious with police batons. They ARE safer than any of those. But a lot of cops don't actually use their tasers as alternatives to that kind of violence, once they have them...they use their tasers as alternatives to TALKING.

Some of the high-risk groups for being damaged by taser attacks are likely to have trouble complying quickly with police orders for exactly the same reasons that they're at high risk. Aren't intoxicated people kinda confused? Elderly with Alzheimers or other dementia? Seizure disorder? (I don't have convulsive seizures, but my partial seizures are triggered by flashing lights and leave me very confused for a few minutes.) And women in late pregnancy usually can't move fast.

[conuly]

The problem with Tasers is American policing.

[dewline]

Canadian police are not immune. Ask the ghost of Robert Dziekański.

[conuly]

Oh, god. I like to hope they're at least better than cops here, though.

[zesty_pinto]

It's hard to go wrong with caramelizing onions in almost anything, personally. Someone could tell me they're making ice cream out of them and I'd probably hesitate before reacting because I know that it would at least be a combination of creamy, savory, and sweet.

I often like to think of this:

[conuly]

Garlic ice cream is a thing that exists, I'm told.

[zesty_pinto]

May we never forget Japan's odd ice creams.

Having said that, I am aware I'm not too far away from a place known for lobster ice cream too.

Still, caramelized onions just doesn't strike me as weird. Maybe it's me? Maybe because I'm told durian has a somewhat similar flavor? I dunno.

[conuly]

I've had durian. Blech. Maybe it tastes like caramelized onions if the onions were bad.