Eau d’onion

I had a new brand of perfume this week: eau d’onion.

You see, I made caramelized onions on Wednesday night for this green bean dish.  I might have had the heat a bit too high, because the onions did blacken a bit more than caramelize.  The smoke detectors might have gone off.  (But the onions still tasted good, I swear!)

I was regretting my menu choice when I got to work the next morning and all I could smell was onions.  Somehow the onions seemed to permeate every fiber of my clothing, every strand of my hair and every skin cell on my hand (despite the fact that I was freshly showered and wearing clean clothes from my closet).

I emailed Chris about my issue; here’s how the conversation went:

Me: I smell like onions today.

Chris: Me too!!!  Yuck! [you know it is serious when he uses exclamation points]

Me: Do you???  Do you think our whole house smells? [you know I'm worried when I use lots of question marks]

Chris: Totally.  My co-workers even said so.  I can smell it.  No more onions.  Caramelized or otherwise.

Me: That is so bizarre.

Chris: Not really when you think about the fact that we had an onion inferno in our kitchen…

Onion inferno?  Really?  Maybe he was right because I returned home from work and class 12 hours later to a house that still smelled a lot like caramelized/blackened onions.

A little Google research resulted in an all-natural home-freshening method that goes something like this:

Add a tablespoon of cinnamon and a teaspoon of nutmeg to a pot of water

Add oranges, lemons, or any citrus you have on hand.

Boil until your house smells good.

And your house will smell good.  In fact, it will smell amazing…kind of like orange spice tea.  I might try this on a regular basis, even when I don’t burn onions.

Do you have any home freshening solutions?  Do share, as we all know this won’t be the last time I burn something smelly.

(onion photo source)