Not Bad For A Girl: know your onions

By PRSD, on Thursday, March 5, 2009

Katie Marie needs all the sustenance she can muster for as she organises her April 26 gig. But are onions the right way to go?

As usual I’ve been up to lots of weird and wonderful things. One of the funniest moments happened today actually, and it was so stupid I instantly thought that I’d have to share it with you.

My other half and I decided to go on a seven-day detox diet, which promises to make us feel super dooper fit and healthy after wards. One slight draw back is we can only eat fruit and/or a very specific soup which required us to go out an buy the ingredients.

A few of the things mentioned were carrots, broccoli, cabbage, green peppers, V8 juice and green onions.

‘What are green onions?’ my other half asked as we wandered aimlessly round Morrisons.

‘Dunno,’ I replied. ‘I guess they’re like normal onions.How many do we need?’

‘Six, and they have to be large!’

Both of us thought that sounded like a lot, but we were happy to go along with what the recipe was telling us, so we picked up six of the biggest, largest, white onions you’ve even seen and put them in our trolly with all the other bits of veg.

We began the rather grueling task of creating our soup, and first to go in was our massive onions.

We got two onions in, and already our eyes started streaming, so by four onions it felt like our eyes were going to explode out of our sockets and we kept having to take breaks and leave the kitchen to let our eyes recover

After what seemed like an eternity (but actually was about 15mins) later we had six onions chopped up and thrown into the cooking pot. It seemed to fill most of it and about halfway through the creation process we had in fact filled the pot to the brim and couldn’t fit any more ingredients.

We both got the distinct impression that we’d cocked up rather badly somewhere along the line. I went back online to check the ingredients, and felt the biggest plonker on the planet when I realised that green onions are in fact spring onions and not normal white onions!! Which would explain why we’d got more onions than anything else in our soup!!! lol We did feel very silly, but fortunately we had a good old chuckle about it!

So apologies in advance if I absolutely stink of onions this week.

So other than making stinky onion soup, I’ve been spending this week planning and preparing for a gig I’m organising at the lovely Barrel House in Totnes.

It’ll be an acoustical type evening featuring myself and two other acts (Marnie & Me and Dan Crisp). It’s going to be a wonderful evening, but it’s really important that we get as many bodies through the door as possible.

Although the gig isn’t until April 26 (did you get that? April 26!) there’s plenty of things that need to get sorted, and as all you fellow DIY musos know, it’s a case of getting that promotion hat on and getting the word out there in any way you can think of.

I’m hoping I can get most of the local radio stations involved and we’re in the process of sorting out posters and flyers so we can wack em here there and everywhere! So if you’ve any ideas for promo bits n bobs I’m always keen to hear from you.

My studio is slowly but surely getting there, and now I’m in the final stages I’m becoming even more impatient as I’m dying to get in there and get stuck in with some recording.

I’ve got a freshly painted floor in the recording room, and began sticking the floor tiles to the hallway. I’ve just got to save up some spondoolies now and get some carpet for the live room. All that’s left is attaching some shelves and hooks for hanging leads on, a few pictures on the walls and then the re-wiring can begin! Woohoo!

I’ve got yucky work tomorrow

But there is light at the end of the tunnel, as I’m hoping to step down to part time in two weeks from now, and then by the end of April I should hopefully be able to once again return to my wonderful musical world, FULL TIME!! I can’t wait!!

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