Braided Onions and Food Carving

She, my oldest and biggest helper, is now ready - for what I've been waiting for.....reading chapter books together.  We've embarked on the heart warming series; Little House on the Prairie.  It was our favorite, growing up.

"....Onions were made into long ropes, braided together by their tops, and then hung in the attic beside wreaths of red peppers strung on threads.  The pumpkins and squashes were piled in orange and yellow and green heaps in the attic's corners.....

....."The attic was a lovely place to play. The large round, colored pumpkins made  beautiful chairs and tables. The red peppers and the onions dangled overhead. The hams and venison hung in their paper wrappings, and all the bunches of dried herbs, the spicy herbs for cooking and the bitter herbs for medicine, gave the place a dusty-spicy smell.

    "Often the wind howled outside with a cold and lonesome sound. But in the attic Laura and Mary played house with the squashes and the pumpkins, and everything was snug and cozy.

    ...."Laura had only a corncob wrapped in a handkerchief, but it was a good doll. It was named Susan. It wasn't Susan's fault that she was only a corncob."

Little House in the Big Woods, Laura Ingalls Wilder

Now with food on my mind, I just have to share this with you;

and this,

Dear friends of ours from Thailand, talented in food carving, show their skills!