1. Get in your head something you want to cook and eat.

2.Read a bunch of recipes, write down all the stuff you need to buy at the grocery.

3. Say, oh hell, I’ll just roast them in olive oil and salt; what could go wrong…

I was going to make stuffed onions. All the recipes had a different method for removing the center of the onion where the stuffing would go. Cut a half inch off the tops, cut a bit from the bottom so they would sit flat, poach, boil, cook halfway..All I did was peel the skins off, cut off some of the top and bottom, then rolled them in plenty of olive oil and sprinkled with Maldon coase sea salt, put them in a 370° oven and basted them a couple of times, for about 35 minutes. Turned the oven down to 350° and turned the the onions over. Much to my surprise when I opened the oven door 25 minutes later the centers had popped up, so cute and how easy it would have been to pull the roasted centers out, put in a stuffing and put the little hat back on top or use the roasted goodness as an ingredient in the stuffing. But I ate them out of the pan standing up in my kitchen, happily.