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Default Favorite things to do with onions?


"Robert Miles" > wrote in message
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> On 12/7/2011 5:45 PM, Julie Bove wrote:
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>>> "Julie > wrote in message
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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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> 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.


I'm pretty sure they're yellow, not white. And I don't find white onions to
be hot at all. Just the red ones.