Blogging for Dummies

Since I am relatively new to the art of blogging, I have had some trouble figuring out all the kinks. I wanted to create a way to make clickable categories on the side of my blog, but I am now just about ready to admit defeat. But, just because I did not succeed in making clickable categories, does not mean I won't try and try again. So, I am going to try something different. A few times a week, I am going to post "how to" blogs with a different cooking technique in each one. So, without further ado, let's jump into today's technique; mincing.

Mincing is a pretty fancy word for a pretty easy technique. Basically, mincing is chopping something up into really small pieces (like shredding cheese, but you don't use a grater). To mince an onion, for example, start by cutting the onion in half, and cut the unedible ends off. Then, place the cut side (the big side that used to be the middle) down on a cutting board and slice horizontally into the onion, making thin slices, but stopping without going all the way through it. Then, when you reach the end of the onion, chop vertical slices into the onion until you have tiny onion squares. Do the same thing to the other half, and viola! You have a minced onion, ready to go.