Do you think of onions as a condiment or a vegetable or a main entree?

Love your name. I like onions all those ways, too. You're in the 700s now, how do you like Mylot?

I love it. I think it has kept me sane. Which considering what I've been through is saying a lot. Thanks for responding and take care.

Thanks lol...like your name too, especially the pun. Arrgh lol I didn't even notice how many points I'd got and not sure what they mean. I've been on MyLot for about 3 or so years but on and off. I quite like it sometimes yet not others. Depends on what there is to talk about. Do you like it?

So you've had them as an ingredient(word I think I was trying to think of instead of condiment) and as a side veggie for onion rings. But no main event yet. Well, 2/3 isn't bad. Thanks and take care.

Ohhh I just thought of what the real name is for the deep fried onion I was talking about. Its called a blooming onion. You see them for sale at fairs alot. I bought my brother in law for one of his wedding presents a blooming onion maker. I dont like to cut up onions they hurt my eyes so what I do is buy them before I need them and freeze them then a few weeks later when I need them I take them out and chop them up frozen and they no longer make your eyes sore when cutting into them. Its easier as well to just buy a bag of frozen chopped onions. Its about $1 for a 16 oz bag.

About 2 years ago, maybe 3, we started having bloomin onions at our fair. I had one the first year, not bad, huge and couldn't finish it, but good. I don't have room in my kitchen for anything more, I don't even have room for what I've got. Frozen onions taste waterlogged to me. But that is a neat way to keep from crying!

Deep fried area lot like onion rings. I've never had pierogies with onions. I've really only had pierogies out at a fast food place or restaurant. I haven't prepared them myself or bought them from a frozen food section. I see them next to the ravioli and I end up buying that instead. I bet pierogies with onions would be terrific. I love mushrooms, but I hate mushroom soup. It's rare that a person likes something in all its forms so liking cooked, but hating uncooked onions is probably pretty normal and I think at least one person said that and another the other way around, likes raw but not cooked. Thanks and take care.

Yeah, sweet heat, I love them. But my hubbie doesn't. So I make things with and without. Thanks and take care.

I think it would be interesting to try to make stuffed onions, like we make stuffed peppers or stuffed tomatoes.

Wow Gerty, is that possible? I mean onions have layers unlike tomatoes and peppers..If it is possible, I'd love to know how, for I really love them..:)

You've never heard of French onion soup or just regular onion soup? Interesting. It's got the broth from pot roast, sauteed onions in the bottom, a slice of French bread and cheese melted on the top. That's the French onion one. Regular onion has beef broth or chicken broth and lots of sauteed onions. Not hard to make either one, but please don't use salty bouillion. Many people don't like French onion or regular onion soup because here really salty bouillion is used. Of course everything here is Americanized and that often means salt and sugar are added to just about everything, sometimes to the extreme.

Good that you like Fresh veggies, more vitamins that way as long as they don't come from very far away (like some of ours here do).

I'm not that much into cooking and such, so I'm afraid I'm not very knowledgeable when it comes to different dishes... but that's what myLot is for, I'm learning a lot of things! :) Yeah, usually the vegetables I eat come from the town next to ours, so no problems with that :)

So sometimes like an herb or spice as well as a vegetable. I think that's probably pretty normal. See page 2 of this discussion and look for a snail avatar, I have how to make French Onion soup as a main dish. No snails in it, that's just her avatar. It's just broth, onions and bread/cheese. Ways to make onions the main event: sautee a bunch of onions in either olive oil or butter or a little of both (my favorite) and then pour them over bread or toast (toast stands up better). A nice thick layer. Alternately, you can pour olive oil on top of onions and put them in a pan in the oven and cook until they look done to you. My onion sand which is just two slices of bread with a slice of a sandwich-sized onion (think onion like a beefsteak tomato) and then you need to decide what to put on the bread, mayo, salad dressing, olive oil and vinegar, honey mustard, etc. Whatever you want to put on it. But you need a sweet onion, not a really, really hot one. Happy main event onion eating. Let me know how you like them. Take care.

The snails I've had only tasted like garlic and butter. But I did want you to know that the snail was just an avatar. French and other culture recipes can have some unusual items in them.

Yum, that onion sandwich sounds good. I will have to try that. I love sweet onions thats mostly what I use in cooking. I like some dishes with raw onions, like mashed potatoes and raw onions and I use raw onion in sandwiches and mix them with other ingredients and of course I like raw onions on subs. I am going to go have a look at that onion soup recipe too. I love onion soup but have never found a good recipe for it and always have to buy it and I prefer homemade, that way I know what I'm eating as I don't like additives. I am so glad that there are no snails in it as I don't like them either., lol. Thanks, writersedge!

You use them as an herb or spice. For French people, they're everything. Think French onion soup. My Mom used to eat onion sandwiches all the time. I can only do that if the onion is a sweet onion, not a hot onion.

I guess I've just always had it in restaurants so I don't know any other version... but I'll grant that I don't have high blood pressure...

Well, if you don't have high blood pressure and you enjoy it, great!

My husband can't have raw onions either, but he really doesn't care for the texture of cooked onions. What I will do is cook meat on both sides, then when they're almost done, put onions on top to keep the meat from drying out. Then when the onions are done, take it out, then take the onions off for me. Hubbie likes the taste the onions inpart and the moisture instead of a dried out piece of meat, he gets a tasty moist piece. I love French onion soup if I can find a low salt version, those high salt versions aren't good.

That's why you don't have them as much. Because the rest of the family doesn't care for them as much.

Some people only like onions to flavor things and that's OK. I live where you can buy them a bag at a time and really use them for all sorts of things. Thanks for stopping by and take care.

I love carmelized onions and mushrooms on steaks. That's like the best. Now I want some! Thanks and take care.

I know. I wanted some too when I thought of it.

I haven't had onion relish in forever. There is a Vadalia Onion relish this one Farmers' Market has, oh is it incredible! Now I wish I had money to go to Prey's Family Market. You've got lots of great onion uses. Baked onion is like sauteed onions if you do it like we do. We bake them until they're carmelized. Fried with peppers is great, we often have that with sausages.

Most people do consider it a vegetable, but our family, it has all kinds of uses. Glad you like them, too.

I've had it at the fair, but I haven't made it. Something that big in that much hot oil scares the heck out of me. I thought it was wonderful. I don't remember the sauce, they probably asked if I wanted some and I probably said no. I'm not crazy about sauces I get at the fair. Some people are, but I'm not.

Onion rings with the rest of a meal, a vegetable. Yeah fresh and real onion rings are amazing. Thanks and take care.

I encourage people to try food they hated as kids because tastes do change. I hated sourkraut, but my Dad kept putting one bite on our plates. One night we all decided we liked it for a change. There was my poor Dad with a small can and he almost didn't get any. He had to start buying big cans so he could have some. So onions are an acquired taste in your family, interesting. They're good for blood pressure and all kinds of things. Thanks and take care.