Small red onions at the farmer’s market.

Towards the last few of the farmer’s markets this year, I bought some small red onions from the one (older) (female) (Lao) vendor who I know, since she didn’t have any usual items that I would buy from her and I wanted to buy something.

And, I didn’t buy like the whole little greenish paper tub full because there was no way that I could use that many red onions, but just like a small handful of them, for which she charged me almost nothing.

And yet, I was so surprised at how tasty and flavorful they were, when I cut them up in my salads – just levels beyond any ordinary onion.

You would think that there wouldn’t be that much difference with flavors across onions, but there is.

It made me wonder why I had passed them over so much before…

I won’t make that mistake again.