Carmelized Onions

[glatt]

When I was a kid, my mom said something that just stuck in my head for years, because it's both true and kinda wacked.

And that is, that if you are supposed to be making dinner for the family, but haven't figured out what it's going to be, just saute an onion and the wonderful smell will waft through the house, and everyone will be assured that you have some wonder dinner in the works, as you rack your brain trying to come up with something to make.

Kinda crazy, but it's true that an onion being fried up smells better than most other things in the kitchen.