A friend of mine got distracted while caramelising onions. She was caught up in a conversation with her neighbour. The onions turned black.
The reason for caramelising the onions in the first place was to use up some leeks from the garden. And the only thing you can do with leeks is make soup*, so she was making soup. And caramelised onion makes all vegetable soups better.
It turns out, the onions weren’t burnt, they were just extremely well caramelised.
And it turns out, the soup was delicious.
There's not much of a point to this story, other than to say that the soup was delicious, and I’m really glad my friend decided to spend time with her friend instead of doing what she planned. Sometimes, perhaps always, that’s the most important thing.
Tomorrow, I might say hi to one of my neighbours.
* Please feel free to send in your non-soup uses of leeks.