Pickled Onions, Creole-Style Shrimp, Pre-Made Cocktails

Good morning! It's the weekend, which means I will spend at least a small part of today trying to figure out which cocktail I'll be sipping tonight as the sun slips over the yardarm. (Currently in the lead: Paper Planes.) Over at Life and Money, I wrote about a few things you can do on the weekend to get ahead for a week of easy dinners, including makin…