On 12/7/2011 5:45 PM, Julie Bove wrote:
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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.

I've read of a type of onions called Vidalia onions. White, but with
much less of the hot flavor than most other white onions.