Part of having a food blog means you talk about the foods you ate (or didn’t eat) as a child. Generally, that implies a certain amount of discussions involving your favorite dishes, a secret recipe, or in some cases, those dishes you still can’t seem to stomach even after almost 30 years of watching family members eat it – collards would be that dish for me, as I’ve mentioned recently, although I just might have to give them a try again, thanks to a reader’s suggestion. Might would be the key word there… Sometimes, I forget about all the little things I used to eat growing up, and occasionally dishes creep ever so sneakily back into existence. Dishes such as fried onions, which are not to be confused with onion rings. You see, I think of onion rings as battered and deep fried, eaten with a generous dollop of...








