Tuesday, December 14, 2010

You either love 'em or you hate 'em!

One day last week I was cleaning an onion--I was making spaghetti and even though I just buy sauce in the jars I always add onions, sometimes garlic. Spaghetti is not the subject of this post though.

It is onions. Just with the simple act of cutting into the onion, I am immediately ravenous! I don't care if I have just gotten up from a holiday feast, or if I have just had a steak meal, or barbecued ribs...if I smell an onion I am immediately hungry. I want cornbread! Southern style, I suppose, without sugar. I don't know if that is a southern thing or just from my particular neck of the woods. But I do know that I have yet to meet anyone up here, that makes our type of cornbread.

But back to onions. I want cornbread and a slice of pork shoulder or salt cured bacon, cooked over an open fire with onions to eat with it. Or if I smell onions, I want soup beans and cornbread and onions...and you won't believe this. I like them cold out of the fridge...one of my sisters used to come back home to visit and I can remember her/us getting up after everyone had gone to bed, and we would go raid the fridge and if there were cold soup beans, she would have cornbread, soup beans and onions. I had not had that in years and years, and last spring, I remembered and tried it again, and I still love it.

And let's not forget wilted lettuce and onions. With cornbread....

Or something my mom cooked and I do, too, that I have never seen anyone else cook...well, my sister-in-law might...but she would be the only one...but not sure if she does. I think I ask her a year or two or three ago, but forget the answer. Anyway, mom would get stew beef and cook it in the pressure cooker till tender, or almost tender....then add potatoes. I get a nice chuck roast from my local IGA store...cook it till tender in the pressure cooker. While it is cooking I usually have my potatoes cooking in another pot and once the meat is tender, I add the potatoes to the beef and add water if needed and cook a while longer.

I have my cornbread baking, and green beans in another pot...then when I sit down to eat, I have an onion sliced....there just isn't much better on this earth. I don't fix it often...but when I do, I am ashamed of how much I eat.

I don't cook like that all the time, but ever since I made the spaghetti I have been craving at the least, a pone of cornbread and a slice of onion.

When a kid, and my nephews stayed/visited in the summer, if there happened to be sliced, white bread, which we called light bread, sometimes for a snack we would have a mustard and onion sandwich. I still have that once in a blue moon....

And I love onions on a hamburger.

I suppose if I could have left the bit about having a mustard and onion sandwich and having onion on a hamburger, I could have titled this post With cornbread.

But since there are some people that just cannot stand onions, I will leave it titled as is...

8 comments:

  1. Hi Rose, George and I love onions also... BUT--we make sure that both of us eat them at the same time... ha ha .....

    I love onions with our Pinto Beans and cornbread. I love onions when I have a chili dog.... YUM... I love onions on my salads... How 'bout 'Just about everything'???? ha

    Hugs,
    Betsy

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  2. Oh man I love this post. We love onions, the more the better in a recipe.

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  3. Boy, you do love onions. When I was a kid I used to eat onion sandwiches. I do love them on hamburgers and in most things. Neither of my kids like onions, so I got used to cooking many things without them. YOu will have to send me your cornbread recipe. I'm a lazy cook and usually just make Jiffy cornbread. I made a crockpot of bean soup this week.

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  4. It all sounds so good! I would love to try your type of cornbread. When I do a roast, I always use a pressure cooker. That wonderful device does a great job of making meat so tender it falls apart. Very nice and hunger producing post! :-)

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  5. oh Rose... you're talkin' my language. i love onions especially with soup beans, fried potatoes & corn or on hamburgers. i can eat them with most anything though. a pot roast is always good with some onions cooked in for good measure. hope all is well. have a great day.

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  6. You're making me hungry! I like the sound of everything you mentioned.

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  7. Okay, Rose, time to get serious. This is another chapter for your book. Put 'em together, get an agent, and you're gonna have a best-seller, I guarantee you!

    I like onions, but can't imagine eating them cold out of the fridge. Well, maybe I could. At my age, though, I'm having a harder time with fried onions, which I dearly love!

    My recommendation: Don't get old!

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  8. I'm an onion fan too! They don't make me hungry though. I like them in salads, sauces, with veggie burgers...YUM!

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