The Big Onion
Friday, 6. June 2008, 21:55:14
Got a couple new onions in, and this one is as big
as a damn cannonball. Or almost. I don't know where
it is from other than saying "my grocery store."
What with NAFTA and all it could be from Madagascar
for all I know. Back in the Good Old Days, i.e. about
5 years ago, most of the onions you bought here were
from Washington or Idaho. And I suppose this one could
be from Idaho, who really knows.
It's a big onion. But not nearly as big as this onion,
which came in at a whopping 16 pounds.
Anyway, I just hope that it doesn't get me pregnant,
like that alien onion almost did last January. That
was just plain freaky. I want to eat my onions, not
be impregnated by them. So hopefully this huge new
onion is safe.
you are amazing!!
I never thought that you are able to take an onion and use it in do many ways!
I love your Allen Onion
The French have a saying about a full busted womans breast :
Un sein gigantesque fera vous pleurer comme un oignon gigantesque !
I hope this one doesn't make you cry too!
**tip of the day,
if you don't want to cry when peeling an onion, put it in hot water for 15 minutes before peeling
It doesn't work the same with the woman's assets
By ellinidata, # 6. June 2008, 22:10:10
By edwardpiercy, # 6. June 2008, 22:17:33
or onion stake??
A. * 1 stick butter (8 Tablespoons)
* 8 cups onions, thinly sliced
* 3 Tablespoons flour
* 3 quarts beef stock
* 1 Tablespoon salt
* 1 teaspoon pepper
* 1 cup brandy
* 1 teaspoon BV meat glaze (or kitchen bouquet, bovril, or oxo, in a pinch)--optional
* grated Gruyere cheese
* grated Parmesan cheese
* French bread
* olive oil
Melt the butter in a Dutch oven and add the onions, stirring constantly. cook for 5-7 minutes, until soft.
In the meantime, cut slices of French bread into 1/2 inch pieces and toast them at 350 degrees in the oven for about 15 minutes--until they are dry crusts.
When the onions are soft, sprinkle them with flour, stir, then add 2 cups of beef stock and stir until the mixture is thickened. Add the remaining stock, stir into 1 Tablespoon of salt, the pepper, and the brandy. Bring to a boil. Cover and simmer for 1/2 hour to an hour. Add the meat glaze and taste for seasoning.
When you're ready to serve, ladle the soup into individual bowls and cover each with a thick handful of Gruyere cheese. Top each with a piece of the toasted bread, which has been drizzled with olive oil. Sprinkle it with the Parmesan, then run them under a broiler for a few minutes and carry out to the table.
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B.
Ingredients
* 2 (1 1/2 lb) beef porterhouse steaks, cut 1 1/2 inches thick
* 1/2 cup sliced onion
* 1 large garlic clove, minced
* 3 tablespoons butter or margarine
* 1 dash celery salt
* 1 dash pepper
* 1/4 cup dry red wine
* 2 tablespoons soy sauce
* 1 cup sliced fresh mushroom
Directions
1.
1
Slash fat edges of steak at 1-inch intervals. (Don't cut into meat).
2.
2
Slice pockets in each side of meat, cutting almost to bone.
3.
3
In a skillet cook onion & garlic in 1 TABLESPOON of the butter.
4.
4
Add celery salt & dash pepper.
5.
5
Stuff pockets with onion mixture; skewer closed.
6.
6
Mix wine & soy sauce; brush on meat.
7.
7
Grill over MEDIUM HOT coals for 8-10 minutes, brushing often with soy mixture.
8.
8
Turn & grill 8-10 minute more for rare, continuing to brush meat with soy mixture often.
9.
9
In a smaller skillet, cook mushrooms in remaining 2 tablespoons butter till tender.
10.
10
Slice steak across grain. Pass mushrooms to spoon atop steak.
By ellinidata, # 6. June 2008, 22:22:24
I've got to show that to my mom, she will be beside herself with excitement at these recipies.
Here's some spice that's from my cabinet. I can't say I've ever actually used this stuff. So I don't know how it tastes.
I seriously doubt whether the "ancient Greek
formula" included Monosodium Glutamate.
Not being much of a cook, Angeliki, I'm just coming over to your place for dinner. I just called and the Gulfstream is being all warmed up. And besided the food, don't forget that Naughty Secretary dress.
By edwardpiercy, # 6. June 2008, 22:46:24
the spice you have is great for pork chops, grilled chicken or Greek meat balls.
You live alone that makes you a cook!
are you telling me if I visit I have to bring the Naughty Secretary dress and cook too??
from all days , today wasn't a cooking day:
I am having dinner on my desk while I talk to you.
my 16 year old has dinner with friends in Manhattan and my young had a :girls mall" afternoon and ate at Taco Bell.
I am having fish with string beans. I wasn't the cook
I did order in today.
By ellinidata, # 6. June 2008, 22:50:10
how old is she??
what is her name??
By ellinidata, # 6. June 2008, 22:51:35
My nachos are actually a variant on ball park nachos.
ED'S BALL PART NACHOS
1 15 oz. jar Tostitos Salsa Con Queso cheese sauce
1 cup sliced jalapena pepper rings (you can buy these pre-sliced in a jar)
corn tortilla chips
1 cup (or so) sour cream
Preheat the oven to 300 degrees, or 325 if you live in the mountains. Put a bunch of the chips in a pie pan. Spoon out the cheese sauce over the chips. It wil take just about the entire jar. Put the jalapenos over the top of it.
Stick in the oven for about 10 minutes or until cheese is hot.
Spoon out the sour cream onto the top of the nachos and let sit for about 15 minutes. Then, take a spatula and put the nachos onto a plate.
I'm a bachelor, so this makes one serving only. It you have more people you'll have to use more stuff and use a big glass baking dish or something.
I'm bringing the fedora. You mean that's not enough?
By edwardpiercy, # 6. June 2008, 23:01:49
if it is the old no!
I was laughing today when I got an email from my cousin in Greece the picture
Johnny Depp with fedora!!!!
Can at least hope you wash the dishes??
I hope there is a dish washer in the house!
**
thanks for the recipe,
I did copy and sent it to my 15 year old.e is into Nachos
I am keeping my low calories diet .
hint: Bikini time
By ellinidata, # 6. June 2008, 23:11:12
By edwardpiercy, # 6. June 2008, 23:15:09
I do not eat meat either!
At this point I lost the taste for it, I don;t even see the benefits of not eating it.
I love my beans for my B12
yes, Vaia will love them!
she is very tall and very thin so she can eat anything she likes !
what time is dinner??
I need to iron the dress
By ellinidata, # 6. June 2008, 23:20:27
The nachos are very easy to make. I know a whole bunch of cheap and easy recipes, mostly developed during my college days.
Here's a tip for making el-cheapo Mac & Cheese out of a box taste better: Cook and drain the noodles, then put in the butter or margerine FIRST, then add the packet of cheese powder. Stir very well and if need just a drop of milk -- or if you are really broke and don't have any milk you can use water. Then add frozen peas and stir it again. The peas really make it a good, cheap dish.
By edwardpiercy, # 6. June 2008, 23:25:34
now tell me your bank account number !!!
thanks for the tip!
I do use many short cuts myself and with three different tastes in the house it is a challenge.
I am glad that the only labor work I do in the house is cooking.
I am crazy about Greek salads topped with grilled chicken or peanut oil marinated salmon.
I love peas in my soups, pasta, practically every thing!
I used to be a picky eater till I became a mother!
now I can finish a left over peanut butter sandwich and I can count it as Bkfst!
I eat bkfst at 11am.
Are you a morning type??
I hate mornings
the 5:30am wake up call daily it is killing me.
But I am still positive!
By ellinidata, # 6. June 2008, 23:32:04
And don't even get me started on corn or potatoes!
Creamed corn -- put a tablespoon of bacon grease in a can of creamed corn and fry it in a skillet. That's the way my grandmother did it!
PS we have this new Greek restaurant downtown called Santorini. I've haven't eaten there yet. Next time I'm downtown I'll take a picture of the restaurant for you!
By edwardpiercy, # 6. June 2008, 23:40:14
Santorini is a very well known island so most probably they named it after it! These people might be Greek nomads from the mountains!
We have many differeny groups and many different dialects in Greece.
We consider ourselves the most pure blooded Greeks(at least from my mothers side the natural blond blue eyed Greeks) not that I support the idea of some lunatic in the history but in Greece after so many occupants the pure blood is only in their minds. Especially the old generations
My father and young sister are enormous in height and they both have the Mongolian features , I believe the black sea trading has something to do with it!
I am not telling my dad but I know if I do I am black listed!!
In Santorini there are nudist beaches,
are they having nudist areas there too ??
By ellinidata, # 6. June 2008, 23:56:22
sorry I didn't respond earlier,
I had a DHL delivery and I had to get dressed and go downstairs to the office...
Good thing every thing is in the same bldg !
By ellinidata, # 6. June 2008, 23:58:31
Ash from the Santorini eruption (explosion would be more the word) went around the world, and it was absorbed into the tree rings here in the NW United States. By doing an analysis of the tree rings, they were able to precisely date the eruption at 1628 BCE. As a result, we have a whole new chronology for Minoan archaeology (high) and Egyptian archaeology (low). It has been a revolution, pretty much.
I hope their food is not so explosive on my stomach!
By edwardpiercy, # 7. June 2008, 00:19:51
When I visited I did bring back some bottles full of dark sand and the girls in the office were very excited! My young sister rents an apartment every summer there and the are having partial of their vacation. The kids are practicing their English and German . It is something they love doing.
My idea of vacation is not an island with tourism.
The less tourism the better. I love Amorgos, Ikaria,small islands and nothing fancy. I love having dinner with the locals and create friendships.
My first brother in law is from Naxos, they even have a hotel there. I never visit. Too much noise and not the typical Greek environment.
At my neck of the woods we swim, sleep under the olive trees ,swim again have something to eat and interact with every day people.
I hope you get a menu too from Santorini!
I will teach you how to pronounce the names
By ellinidata, # 7. June 2008, 00:29:16
So basically...all Greeks do is swim and sleep under olive trees?
I would take Crete. Gotta love the archaeology there. I spent a small time studying it. Jeremy Rutter of Dartmouth is the resident expert here in the US for the Aegean. I have the first 19 chapters of this not-yet-published textbook printed out. An incredible work!
We have a couple of Greek restaurants here. And a Middle Eastern one called Azar's. And an Indian one, went to that one a few years back and it was VERY good! My dinner was all vegetarian that night.
By edwardpiercy, # 7. June 2008, 00:42:13
we are a sleepy nation !
there are many Archeological sites in Samothrace, In Avdera, In Thasos in Kymeris( my mom's birth place).All in the area I have my house.
I love Crete,
I have a dear friend in Agusta Ga, an Engineer that has a beautiful House in Crete and he plans to live there 1/2 a year. I am creating many friendships with Greek Americans that will semi retire in Greece.
Thant will cut my hotel expenses in the long run
I love Rodes. My favorite Greek Island. People are so polished so, much more educated than the average Greek. I met one from Rodes he is a financial advisor in Maryland and the jerk I was talking to him in Greek and he answered only in English!
So I will visit Rhodes and I will pay the hotel too!
You might enjoy to get in touch with John. An Opera member living in Andalusia. His wife did an extensive work in Archaeological sites in Greece and tonight I am going to see the videos and the photos (he gave me the links today).
I was introduced to him by Naomi and he is a very cool person.
I will give you all the links in a P/msg.
Now if you can share,
is your friend planing to publish this book or he wrote it just for the fun of it??
Is he visiting Greece often or it was a work he did one time only?? I am sure that he knows much more that a Greek does in the archaeological sites in Crete.
I have an amazing "fresco" from Knossos.
It was given to my late husband when we opened the Corporation in Manhattan by a dear friend.
Now all is gone but the :fresco" still in my personal collection.
By ellinidata, # 7. June 2008, 01:04:27
If I remember correctly there was a small Minoan community at Rhodes.
Anyway, time to go eat my nachos. They are out of the oven!
Later!
By edwardpiercy, # 7. June 2008, 01:11:45
enjoy your nap.
I just finished reading about John and Andalusia.
this is the link at Naomis.
http://culturesurfer.com/Pics/AndoluciaSpainSlideShow.htm
I was surprised to find out he is from Holland and Gaby from Bavaria! I thought they live in the desert because Gaby was Spanish!
Any way,
I am sure Dr. Rutter values your opinion that's why he sent you his work!
Later,
By ellinidata, # 7. June 2008, 01:21:00
Too many sensual imputs here!
By musickna, # 9. June 2008, 02:59:54