No Use Crying Over Caramelized Onions

For a week now I have been craving a caramelized onion and smoked gouda cheese quesadilla. Don't ask me why, but I have been obsessed. When we went to the grocery store on Monday I made sure to grab everything I needed. Should have been a piece of cake to throw together right? How hard could it be to make caramelized onions? How could I screw up something that cooks itself?

Well I managed to screw them up not once, not twice, but three freaking times! There are only 2 ingredients: oil and onion! I sure did spent THREE hours trying to get them to caramelize! {you can tell by the exclamation marks that I am yelling at you} I tried everything, smaller slices, larger slices, more oil, less oil, higher heat, lower heat. All with the same result: shriveled up burnt krispy onions.
What the HECK!!!!???? I was almost in tears...I just wanted a freaking quesadilla! What am I missing....
And then my son pooped in his big boy undies...and then when I was cleaning that up Kennie was screaming...and then when I went in the living room to get her Dylan was hitting her in the face with a pillow to try to keep her quiet. All because I wanted a special quesadilla.
#epicfail
#istillwantmyquesadilla