Why don’t any of the recipes have onion or garlic?
This is a personal preference; I was raised in a family that did not eat onion and garlic. This was a common practice for hindu and jain families. To this day I don’t enjoy the taste of onion and garlic. I feel their flavor is so strong that other flavors in the dish are lost by onion or garlic. I suggest, that you practice cooking without them so you can taste the other flavors, and then add them. I am not advocating that you stop cooking with onion and garlic, but I am teaching cooking the way I enjoy eating my self.