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>>>>> I love onions. I put them in nearly everything. My favorite are
>>>>> the white onions but currently I have yellow ones because they
>>>>> were cheap.
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>>>>> What do you like to do with onions?
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>>>> Red onions in salads for me. White or brown in cooked stuff. I use
>>>> onions pretty much every day. Lunch & dinner salads plus in every
>>>> savoury dish I make. Sometimes have them fried with steak
>>>> especially if bbq'ing. I also make onion gravy (brown gravy with
>>>> lightly fried onions). Nice with sausages. I roast them whole with
>>>> roast meats.
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>>> Thanks! I try to put red onions in salads but they are often
>>> overwhelming. The best salads I ever had were in Half Moon Bay CA
>>> and thereabouts. Two restaurants there used very thinly sliced
>>> onions. I don't know if they soaked them in cold water or what but
>>> they came out tasting sweet and not hot.
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>> My mother always soaked sliced onion in vinegar for an hour or so
>> before using them in salads, takes the heat out. I find if I
>> refrigerate onions it takes heat out too.
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> I always soak my red onions in ice water for ten minutes before I put
> them in a salad. We like all onions. I like red or the Vidalia on
> burgers and hotdogs.
> I put the green ones in my potato and pasta salads. I fry them with

My long lost twin! Do you like your onions raw or cooked on burgers
and hot dogs? I like fried onions but also rather partial to raw red
onions on a burger. On the rare occasion I have a Maccas burger I always
ask for raw red onions and tomato