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I have recently become OBSESSED with onions.
I can't stop myself from eating them. I just got a bag full of sweet onions and have been cutting them up and eating them. mmmmmm.. so good... and of course puting them in everything I can think of.
quote:My great-grandmother used to eat butter and onion sandwiches.
My grandpa does, too. Making butter and onion sandwiches and watching old John Wayne movies is one of my favorite memories. Posts: 7600 | Registered: Jan 2001
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When I was in Germany I put onions in almost everything I cooked. So good!
Ben doesn't like onions, though, so if I tried cooking the same things here it wouldn't work that well. (It's as good an excuse for not cooking as anything else . . .)
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I like onions when they're cooked, and put them in everything. I can't handle biting into a raw onion, though.
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I love the taste onions give to meat, but I can't stand the crunchiness when you're trying to eat a hamburger, it makes me shudder.
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SolaF is George R. R. Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire". One of the characters (Davos) is known as The Onion Knight.
I miss onions. Used to love them, especially grilled. But then I had to go and get allergic to them, and now I really can't eat them, unless they are chopped small. The allergy is so bad that if I slice one in half, I need to immediately leave the room because I will be crying so much I won't be able to see.
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I love red onions on a salad. Lately all I ahve been wanting is a spinach salad with red onion, craisins, nuts and chevre ( I know I'm not supposed to eat the chevre, but dang, how careful can a woman be before she goes insane?)
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Oh, and Telp, it is so so good to see you! I think about you, but when I get to the computer I've forgotten.
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Hi again I do not like raw onions, but they got to be sauted in a stir fry or in speghetti with mushrooms, garlic and green peppers. Also, in this pinto bean stuff my grandmother would make with ground beef, the ground beef would have some egg in it to soften it. Then you take some garlic, onions and green peppers saute those things, add tomato paste. It's some good stuff.
And holes is a great book. Haven't seen the movie though.
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Cream cheese and onion on bagel is most excellent. I've even converted Fahim to it.
Onions with sardinese is also good. Chopped up raw onions, pour the sardines on top. Alternately, you can put the two on crackers - also good. Hmm. Oysters would probably also work well.
I put onions into just about everything I can as far as cooking goes. Yesterday, I made a terrific Sprat, Onion, and Capsicum curry. Oh my, it was good. More onions than anything else, but damn! Posts: 8355 | Registered: Apr 2003
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The only things that can compete with the smell of cooking onions is bacon frying and bread baking. Sliced raw onions are an absolute necessity to accompany ham and beans smothered over fried potatoes. MMMMM....
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I agree, Punwit. I love the smell of popcorn popping, too, but it doesn't taste as good as it smells, whereas onions, bacon, and fresh bread do.
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Onions are wonderful. They are my favorite veggie.
My favorite onion dish: sautee wedges of a few large red onions in olive oil over med-low heat with salt, brown sugar (a tablespoon or two) and lots of rosemary until they're nicely carmelized (the lower heat you can use and the longer you can cook them the better). After they're carmelized, add some evaporated milk (1/2 - 1 can, depending on how many onions you have) and cook to reduce. After you have onions in a nice creamy sauce, add some grated parmesan cheese. It's absolute heaven! Posts: 5879 | Registered: Apr 2001
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quote: Holes is really excellent, you should see it Telp.
*see* it?!?!? You should read it first, it's a great book and you'll understand the movie better after reading it. It's by Lois Sachar.
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A light onion soup suitable for a first course or, when served with a hearty bread, a good lunch.
Melt one stick of butter over medium heat in a large saucepan. (Try to find a butter whose ingredients are "sweet cream, salt". The others don't taste as good.)
Saute 2 1/2 or 3 onions, quartered and sliced in the butter.
When onions are clear, push them to the sides. Add several Tbsp. flour all at once in the middle, and fold onion/butter gently into the flour a little at a time until onions and butter are all coated and flour is dispersed throughout the mixture. Continue to saute until butter/onion/flour mixture begins to turn light golden brown.
Add about 2 cups homemade veggie stock which you have, of course, been making with your onion peels, carrot ends, etc. and saving in the freezer or canning in your pressure canner. If you don't have any, use a can of veggie broth, but I warn you, it won't be as good. Same theory as the butter. Add water as needed to get the thinness you want. Cover, reduce heat to low, and simmer about 20 minutes or until onions are tender. Salt as needed and serve hot with bread.
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From a record of the Candyman when I was a kid...
"In our opinion there's nothing like an onion! 'Cause when you're ready for a tasty snack - I wouldn't bite an onion if it didn't bite back!"
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Great snack instead of popcorn: Break up garlic into seperate cloves. Lots and lots of them. Slice up some sweet white onion. Fry it all up with butter and salt. Makes awesome finger food for movies and TV, and you can kill vampires from three yards.
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