Sheldon wrote:

OmManiPadmiOmelet wrote:

My cats have never been interested in the onion greens, but I don't
offer them to them either.


Don't feed cats any onions of any kind, not cooked either.

http://cats.about.com/cs/catfood/a/humanfood.htm

Don't love your pets to death.

Sheldon


I'm pretty careful...... :-)
They get cat food and the occasional offerings of fresh meat.

Fresh or dried catnip too.

That's pretty much it.

Try growing a patch of fresh catnip for your kids.
It's fun!

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jmcquown wrote:
Jude wrote:
I dug about a pound of spring onions out of my backyard today. I'm
thinking about trying to make an onion soup with them.

You can do anything you like with those onions. I just hope they are
spring
onions you planted, rather than the oniony things I call "weeds',
although I
don't see why they wouldn't work, too

Some people can become deathly ill from consuming wild onion (there are
many varieties), eat only a very small amount at first. Livestock can
die from grazing where wild onion is present... never feed any onion to
cats. Onion is an allium, many alliums are deadly poisonous, like
daffodils, even dumb deer know better than to eat daffodils, yet some
of yoose think wild onion is just fine and dandy.

Daffodils are not in the Allium family or genus, Sheldon.

On Thu, 20 Apr 2006 18:58:52 -0700, Jude wrote:

I dug about a pound of spring onions out of my backyard today. I'm
thinking about trying to make an onion soup with them.


My other thought was that they would make a nice quiche, with havarti
cheese.

You planted these right? When we have too many onions I love to make an
onion torte/pie. French onion style soup that you suggested is another
good one and any broth should work ok. I like French onion soup in the
winter. The torte is a good summer dish and goes well with a salad and
nice white wine.

Sheldon wrote:
jmcquown wrote:
Jude wrote:
I dug about a pound of spring onions out of my backyard today. I'm
thinking about trying to make an onion soup with them.

You can do anything you like with those onions. I just hope they are spring
onions you planted, rather than the oniony things I call "weeds', although I
don't see why they wouldn't work, too

Some people can become deathly ill from consuming wild onion (there are
many varieties), eat only a very small amount at first. Livestock can
die from grazing where wild onion is present... never feed any onion to
cats. Onion is an allium, many alliums are deadly poisonous, like
daffodils, even dumb deer know better than to eat daffodils, yet some
of yoose think wild onion is just fine and dandy.


I appreciate the concern, but we ate these same onions last year, out
of the yard, right as spring began. I suspect they have rooted from the
chives in the herb gardens a few feet away and have grown underground
to begin new patches here and there. The visible part is identical to
the chives we planted 2 years ago, which began to grow at the same time
and same rate as these spring onions.

I'm pretty sure they're safe; sisn't make me ill either ofthe last 2
years. If they were mushrooms, I might worry more.

Thanks though!

On Fri, 21 Apr 2006 11:35:14 -0500, OmManiPadmiOmelet wrote:

sf wrote:

On 20 Apr 2006 18:58:52 -0700, Jude wrote:
snip

My other thought was that they would make a nice quiche, with havarti
cheese.


Make quiche.

Agreed.
I don't think they would work well for soup.
The flavor is wrong, and it's no longer soup weather anyway.
At least not here. ;-)

As a soup garnish, they are fine.
Mom used to use them over ramen noodles amoung other things.

I've also served them steamed as a side dish with meat and mushrooms.

Have you ever thrown them on the grill? They are great served with a
little sprinkle of lemon juice and eaten with your fingers. We
usually do it when we grill up fajita meat.
--

Ham and eggs.
A day's work for a chicken, a lifetime commitment for a pig.

I'd give it a try but might use chicken stock instead.

I would be VERY tempted to go Thai. Use cocnut milk, Thai flavorings (curry
paste, fish sauce, lemon grass, kaffir lime leaves etc).

If i had an excess of srping onions, I'd freeze some sliced, grill some in a
pan, simmer some in a tiny amount of liquid as a veggie side for pork of
chicken, or use some sauteed and then baked on top of bread dough (as an
experiment).. The there'd be ometels with the onions and mushrooms.

Jke wrote:
I'd give it a try but might use chicken stock instead.

I would be VERY tempted to go Thai. Use cocnut milk, Thai flavorings (curry
paste, fish sauce, lemon grass, kaffir lime leaves etc).

If i had an excess of srping onions, I'd freeze some sliced, grill some in a
pan, simmer some in a tiny amount of liquid as a veggie side for pork of
chicken, or use some sauteed and then baked on top of bread dough (as an
experiment).. The there'd be ometels with the onions and mushrooms.

OK, but if you read my original post, I toldja that we don't eat any
beef, chicken, or mammal-meat. I used to call myself a vegetarian who
also eats seafood, but I've learned not to do that around here. So the
chicken and pork are out. What would you do if you ate no mammal-meat
whatsoever, only fish, soy, grains, fruits, vegetables, dairy, and eggs?

Jude wrote:
Jke wrote:
I'd give it a try but might use chicken stock instead.

I would be VERY tempted to go Thai. Use cocnut milk, Thai flavorings (curry
paste, fish sauce, lemon grass, kaffir lime leaves etc).

If i had an excess of srping onions, I'd freeze some sliced, grill some in a
pan, simmer some in a tiny amount of liquid as a veggie side for pork of
chicken, or use some sauteed and then baked on top of bread dough (as an
experiment).. The there'd be ometels with the onions and mushrooms.

OK, but if you read my original post, I toldja that we don't eat any
beef, chicken, or mammal-meat. I used to call myself a vegetarian who
also eats seafood, but I've learned not to do that around here. So the
chicken and pork are out. What would you do if you ate no mammal-meat
whatsoever, only fish, soy, grains, fruits, vegetables, dairy, and eggs?

Um....he did give you a non-meat suggestion (omelets, topping for
bread).

Why don't you give the onions to a food bank--they probably could use
them.--r3

OK, but if you read my original post, I toldja that we don't eat any
beef, chicken, or mammal-meat. I used to call myself a vegetarian who
also eats seafood, but I've learned not to do that around here. So the
chicken and pork are out. What would you do if you ate no mammal-meat
whatsoever, only fish, soy, grains, fruits, vegetables, dairy, and eggs?

I would make Thai soups using fish or tofu, for isntance. Or do a Japanese
type of stirfry, or the same using Hoisin sauce, for instance. Or serve bean
stews, all types of soups, etc,

tsr3 wrote:

Um....he did give you a non-meat suggestion (omelets, topping for
bread).

True. And he also gave me several suggestyions that are not compatible
with ym diet, as stated in my original post. I was asking for
suggestions that I could use.

Why don't you give the onions to a food bank--they probably could use
them.--r3

Why should I do that? I spent time digging my wild onions out of my
yard so i could enjoy them. If I didn't want them, I coulda just run
them over with the mower! I put work, time and effort, into collecting
these,becasue I look forward to them each year. Just looking for
feedback before cooking them up.

Besides, most food banks will not accept produce, especially from an
individual who is not a farmer by profession. And at least around here,
they want non-perishable food. An last of all, every time I've gone to
cook a meal at the foodbank (2 - 3 x / year), they are using much
larger quantities than 1 pound for each ingredient. A pound of my
precious onions that I toiled over would be a tiny little sprinkle, not
anything close my goal when I gleefully harvested my bounty!