Getting started

To preserve a connection to the outside world while on maternity leave, I have decided to start this blog.  Sometimes I wonder how connected people really are through only a computer.  With less than four weeks to go until my due date, here goes...Our food adventure today is cooking a recipe from Bon Appetit.  Living in a small town, we cannot get shallots so we are thinking about substituting a smaller amount of red/purple onions.  Not the delicate flavor of shallots but not sure of what would work better?