Sometimes you can write in fifteen minutes what you've never written before !!!

Our exercise today was to write a homage to a humble every day thing from either the fruit bowl or the vegetable bowl. Simple,something to smile about.

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Elaine, in our weekly exercise today showed with 15 minutes it's possible to write something so good it deserves the space on this site. Please read on.

The Outstanding Onion

Oh humble onion, most overlooked of precious vegetables. Silverskin, red, white or brown., without you many a meal would be tasteless.

The original, and most used, brown with your golden skin wrapping tight your green and white bounty beneath. Peeking above the dark brown earth with bright green hair that’s dried and plaited, keeping you safe and ready when called upon.

Chefs are brought to tears by your beauty. No hotdog or burger is complete without you decorating their pasty patty. A pungent aroma pervading the air at events worldwide, enticing even the most finicky and selective eater to market stalls and burger vans. Tummies rumbling and mouths watering and the eternal question, “You want onions on that?”

Or fried in batter, adorning golden fish and chips, brother to mushy peas.

Then the red; your younger, sweeter cousin. Less likely to make you cry but without which chilli, bolognese, lasagne, frittata all would pale into insignificance. A risky salad if you are on a date, but your little sister the scallion or spring onion can hold your hand in the warm sunshine of the onions glow.

White, without whom a coleslaw IS just cabbage and carrot. Who unites the triumvirate into a desired side-dish enjoyed by all who partake. The creamy mayo subtly taking the gentle pungency and enrobing all within.

And last, my favourite, without whom my diet would by now have failed miserably. Pickled sweetness, tangy palate, that satiates the need for “something full of flavour!” The juicy crispness causing coughs at a time when it is frowned upon.

And so, my vegetable hero, I thank thee for thy service.

Copywright 2020 E.T.Tinsdale.