A delicious quiche-like pie that costs only the price of a cup of milk, 2 eggs and a few onions to make. This is a good week-day dish as it is economical, does not require much of your attention, and you are very likely to have all the ingredients on hand
Onions
Apaz Onions
Apaz Onions are wild onions with a green stalk. The bulb has a similar taste, look and size to that of pearl onions. They are being cultivated in Oregon, USA.
Bacon & Onion Tart Recipe
Slices of carmellized onion and bacon on crispy, flaky puff pastry. Serve with a side salad.
Banana Shallots
Banana Shallots © Denzil Green Banana Shallots are longer than the ordinary round shallots. They’re supposedly named for their shape, though they’re not really banana shaped as in with a curve and all; they’re more torpedo-shaped — though presumably someone decided the term “torpedo shallots” would be off-putting. They have smooth, tan-coloured skin. Some varieties…
Boiling Onions
Boiling Onions are normal onions that are harvested when they are still young and small. They will have pretty much the characteristics of what their fully grown selves would have; but most are pretty sharp in taste, which mellows as they are slowly cooked. Some are even sharper than others. They are allowed to grow…
Calçot Spring Onions
This is a special way of growing onions that is practised in the Valls district of Catalonia, Spain — two hours to the south-west of Barcelona. Fully grown white onion bulbs are planted in the fall, let grow for a few months, then gathered and stored. They are then replanted the next fall. They sit…
Cheese & Onion Bread Recipe
A way to zip up an ordinary loaf of white made in a bread machine.
Chives
Chives © Denzil Green Chives are the smallest member of the Onion family. They grow in clumps and have long hollow green shoots for leaves. The plant grows 6 to 10 inches high (15 to 25 cm.) If the plant flowers, it will produce blue flowers, but never any seed: it self-propagates by producing bulbs….
Cipollini Onions
Cipollini Onions © Denzil Green Cipollini are small onions, about the size of ping pong balls, that grow flat at their tops and bottoms. They are 1 to 2 inches (3 to 5 cm) wide and about 1 inch thick (2.5 cm.) There are yellow and red skinned ones. They have a very mild, sweet…
Cocktail Onions
Cocktail Onions © Denzil Green Cocktail Onions are very small, white, crunchy pickled onions. They are made from pearl onions that are peeled and pickled in white vinegar. Most are sour, but you can also get sweeter ones. You can also get them packed in a mixed solution of vermouth and vinegar. They are used…
Corn & Onion Quiche Recipe
A very tasty, inexpensive quiche.
Easy Baked Rosemary Onions Recipe
Some baked onion recipes seem to think you have an army of sous-chefs to back you. This recipe will taste just as impressive.
French Onion Tart Recipe
The onions turn really sweet because they are cooked for so long, first in the frying pan and then again in the oven. Very nice with a salad with tomatoes in it.
Green Onions
Green Onion is a bit of a generic term. It can be used to describe both “Spring Onions” — the very young stalks of any onion, which can be harvested in the spring and eaten, and Green Onions proper. Green Onions proper are also known as Welsh onions, and actually are different from regular onions…
Grelot Onions
Grelot Onions grow in bunches. Their bulbs are always small, round and white, like that of Pearl Onions. In addition to the bulb being eaten, the stalk is also used as you would the stalks of chives or leeks. Grown in France, particularly Rungis. Substitutes Very small pearl onions. History Notes Believed to have originated…
How to chop an onion in 3 steps
How to chop an onion in 3 steps To chop an onion by hand, peel it first. Then slice it in half vertically through the root, so that each half has part of the root in it. This is the only time you cut through the root. No further cuts through the root — you…
Intermediate-Day Onions
This is a term used by people who grow onions. Onions use daylight to produce a good deal of top growth before they form bulbs (and the more top growth, the bigger the bulb.) When the day reaches the right number of hours for that variety of onion, the onion will stop forming top growth,…
Leeks
Leeks © Paula Trites Leeks look like green onions, except that they are far thicker and somewhat taller with a more pronounced onion flavour. The leaves are far more solid and robust than green onion leaves. In fact, while green onion tops can be eaten raw, mature Leek tops need to be cut up and…
Long-Day Onions
Long-Day Onions is a term used by people who grow onions. It refers to onions that need a large number of daylight hours to start plumping up below ground. Onions will form a bulb when the temperature and the number of daylight hours hit the right combination for them which triggers their clock. Long-Day onions…
Onion Powder
Onion Powder © Randal Oulton Onion Powder is a beige-coloured powder that is made from fresh onion that has been peeled, dried, then ground to a fine powder. It is used as a spice to provide an onion flavour in food where you wouldn’t necessarily want chunks of onion. It also provides a quick way…
Onion Sauce for Hot Dogs Recipe
This is a very nice relish.
Onion Slicing Guide
An Onion Slicing Guide is a tool to help you cut paper thin slices of things such as onion and tomato. One type of guide resembles an Angel Food Cake cutter, only the tines are shorter. You peel an onion, cut it in half, place the onion cut-side down on the cutting board, insert the…
Onions
Onions © Paula Trites Onions are a plant bulb used in cooking for the flavour they add to food. Their taste can range from savoury to hot to sweet. If a recipe just calls for “onion”, it means a “Globe Onion”, which is the variety, yellow (aka brown) or white, that has become our unsung,…
Pickled Onion Relish Recipe
This isn’t a proper, preserved relish. It’s meant to be used either the day it is made, or refrigerated and used up within a few days.