[Sca-cooks] Seasonal, Local Sweet Onions;

[Lawrence Bayne]

Wash your hands with something stainless steel rubbing
on them.
BB
YIS
Lothar

--- King's Taste Productions <kingstaste at comcast.net>
wrote:

> Keeping our conversation in mind, I wanted to take
> some Vidalias to put
> on a grill yesterday while visiting friends.  When I
> got to their local
> supermarket (an Ingles outside of Anderson, SC),
> there were no Vidalias,
> just a bin of "sweet onions".  No indication where
> they came from, but
> the skins were very thin and papery like Vidalias
> and Texas Sweets.  I
> bought four, took them over and peeled them, cut
> them in sixths while
> keeping them attached at the bottom (sort of a
> blossom shape), added
> organic butter and wrapped them in foil.  I put them
> on the grill and
> cooked until they were soft.  They were good,
> (everyone raved), but they
> were not as sweet as Vidalias would have been.  The
> thing is, the smell
> of them will not leave my hands.  It is a much
> sharper smell than
> Vidalias leave, and besides them not being quite as
> special as a Vidalia
> treated the same way, I find it interesting that
> this lingering smell is
> one of the real things I can see a difference in.  
> Just thought I'd share.
> Christianna
> Really thinking that I should start that Lenten Fast
> today...
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> On
> Behalf Of grizly
> Sent: Monday, April 03, 2006 10:38 AM
> To: Cooks within the SCA
> Subject: RE: [Sca-cooks] Seasonal, Local Sweet
> Onions;
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> While Vidalia onion plants when planted elsewhere
> will
> NOT produce the same onion that we have all come to
> know and love. There ARE other sweet onion varieties
> that grow elsewhere that are comparable to them. One
> in particular I know of are called "Walla-Walla
> Sweets" They grow in Washington state and you can
> peel
> them and eat the like an apple. SUPERB. They also do
> not transplant well.
> 
> Lothar>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> 
> 
> Walla Walla onions, per wikipedia and
> sweetonionsource.com, are a single
> variety of seed originating in Italy, taken to
> Corsica and brought by an
> French immiagrant in the 1800's.  Vidalias are one
> of about 15 seed
> varieties (per vidaliaonion.com) approved and
> planted in the legally
> stipulated geographic area.
> 
> Both are spectacular to cok with, and it is fun to
> carry on the rivalry.
> I'm going to be in Seattle later this month and hope
> to chide on the
> Madrone
> folks about the many virtues of Georgia Wines and
> Vidalia's 'Holy
> Fruit'.
> If they were in season, I'd try to ssneak some in .
> . . .
> 
> niccolo difrancesco
> 
> 
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