June 27 is the day selected to celebrate oodles of onions. The date was chosen by the National Onion Association(NOA) to document the creation of their organization in 1913. It’s definitely nothing to ‘cry’ over. LOL.
Culinary Versatility
Onions have countless culinary uses. You can take a raw onion and slice it, dice it or chop it to add to recipes. This can be either a condiment (such as a slice of onion on a burger) or diced or chopped as an ingredient to almost any recipe.
Onions can be the featured star of a meal or appetizer, such as homemade onion rings or the delicious ‘blooming onion’. Onion Soup is a popular beginning to the main course in many restaurants.
The Onion is Good for You
In addition to the flavor it adds to foods, onions are beneficial. They have very few calories, no added cholesterol, rich in vitamin C and antioxidants, plus vitamin B5. It also gives you an increase to your dietary fiber.
Funny Personal Onion Story
Years ago our daughter & son-in-law were in town visiting us. We had just acquired our very first gas grill and planned on burgers-on-the-grill for dinner. Instead of offering sliced onions as condiments, we decided to add chopped onions to the burger patties before cooking.
Our son-in-law, Paul, does not like onions (can’t imagine life without onions, myself). So we made two burger patties plain for him.
Well, somehow in the confusion of learning the new grill and turning the hamburgers, some of them must have gotten switched. When dinner was served, Bob took a bite of his burger and declared “I can’t even taste the onion in this”. Paul said “I can!” LOL. Seems Paul got Bob’s onion burgers and Bob got Paul’s Plain burgers! So, naturally, they simply switched.
The moral of the story (other than the impossible task of teaching Paul to like onions) is ‘never try a new recipe out on company’ (or, perhaps while learning a new appliance). :)
A Related Holiday:
Close to Onion Day, we find National Onion Ring Day on June 22. So, while you are enjoying your onion dishes, add in a serving of fried onion rings made from scratch. My favorite is my friend’s tempura batter used to deep fry the onion rings. Paired with a burger or a steak, it would be a delicious meal to end both National Onion Day and Onion Ring Day.
So, enjoy the versatile onion in all its many forms!
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*National Onion Day Holiday Review is written by Wednesday Elf
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Thanks for a fun review
ReplyDeleteGlad you enjoyed it. :)
DeleteOh I agree, I can't imagine not liking onions! LOL, onions have their own National Day. My mom used to eat onion sandwiches, that was popular when I was growing up. She always regretted eating them because she almost always ended up with heartburn after that! She said it was worth it.
ReplyDeleteI've heard of others who liked onion sandwiches, Barbara. I'll pass, even though I really like onions. LOL
DeleteI admit, I do not eat raw onions. Not even onions on burgers. However, I do cook with onions and have quite a few recipes that call for diced onions (something not easily picked out and moved aside). Oddly enough, I eat cooked onions without even noticing them unless they are large chunks or slices. I do enjoy fried onion and the Bloomin' Onion. Why I like some and not others, has always been a mystery to me. Gotta have onions! They are well worth celebrating.
ReplyDeleteI love onions, but not raw. They have to be cooked. I like them any way they are fixed. My DIL makes meatloaf without onions because my grandson doesn't like them. To me, meatloaf HAS to have onions!
DeleteI adore caramelized onions, fried onions, and cooked onions of all types. Recently I have come to enjoy pickled red onions on a salad, as long as they’re mild. My mom often used to cook by sautéing onions and garlic and then deciding what else to add to it, lol.
ReplyDeleteRed onions are probably the only ones I can eat raw. Regular onions raw are too much for my and for my stomach - LOL. I prefer them cooked. The best ever onions, and the sweetest, are Vidalia Onions from Vidalia, Georgia. I missed them when I left Georgia. They are so sweet tasting and have no strong odor so you don't even cry when you slice/dice them. :)
ReplyDeleteFor the most part, I like onions, and have them on veggie burgers and in many recipes. The one recipe that I don't want onions in, though, is potato salad. Just something about that combination. But overall, onions are a good thing. Thank you Wednesday Elf for sharing about this foodie holiday.
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