THE Great Depression ONION!

THINK this needs a little clarification.

DO you mix the peanut butter into the stale bread 

and then fill the onions?

Think so.

Will have to try this and see how it turns out.

What say you?

d

The Magic Ingredient

AN ONION A DAY does what?  It does a trick with creating a tasty Prairie Meatloaf.  Does the trick with Baked Beans.  Magic ingredient for a Super Salad.
  

O N I O N!

There's just something about ONION that makes meatloaf a winner.  When I entered a local Meatloaf Contest, the first year winner had used Lipton Onion Soup in their recipe for her loaf.  WINNER.  It's just the right amount of flavor with a hint of salt.  Midwesterners like this combo.  

The second year's WINNER used onion as well.  Daughter and I WON the third year and I did use ONION.

I tell ya it's the magic ingredient to enhancing the flavor of so many dishes.  Not only is it nutritional, but it makes a meatloaf come to life with pungent flavor that melts in your mouth.  

Simply microwave a whole onion in one of those whimsy microwave cooking gadgets.  Turns out tenderly delicious.  Full of flavor and easy to chew.  Not over powering flavor, but mild.  Low on calories and high in nutrition.  Like onion rings without the greasy crust.

One cup of chopped onion contains approximately 64calories, 
15 grams of carbohydrate, 
0 grams of fat, 
0 grams of cholesterol, 
3 grams of fiber, 
7 grams of sugar, 
2 grams of protein, 
and 10 percent or more of the daily value for vitamin C, vitamin B-6, and manganese.

COOKING BEANS ON THE STOVE.  AS THE BEANS ARE COOKING the aroma is enticing.  It's the ONION!  This is my first time to add ONION to my Pinto Beans.  It is something else.  The flavor will be a tell tell sign of nutrition.

Onions have many possible health benefits including reducing the risk of obesity, heart disease and cancer.  They are high in antioxidants, minerals and vitamins.
Many studies have suggested that increasing consumption of plant foods like onions decreases the risk of diabetes, heart disease, and overall mortality.

Onions also contain small amounts of calcium, iron, folate, magnesium, phosphorus, and potassium, and the antioxidants quercetin and sulfur. 

Plant foods also promote a healthful complexion, hair, increased energy, and overall lower weight.

Folate, found in onions, might help reduce depression. Homocysteine prevents blood and other nutrients from reaching the brain, and folate prevents this chemical from building up. Excess homocysteine also interferes with the production of the feel-good hormones serotonin, dopamine, and norepinephrine, which regulate not only mood, but also sleep and appetite.

Onions are high in vitamin C, which is needed for the building and maintenance of collagen, which provides structure to skin and hair.

The fiber in onions promotes good digestion and helps keep you regular.  The phytochemicals in onions that scavenge free radicals may also reduce your risk of developing gastric ulcers, according to the National Onion Association. Regulating blood sugar. The chromium in onions assists in regulating blood sugar.

Unfortunately they are not for animals such as dogs and cats.  Onions contain an ingredient called thiosulphate which is toxic to cats and dogs. The ingestion of onions causes a condition called hemolytic anemia, which is characterized by damage to the red blood cells. Onion toxicity can cause the red blood cells circulating through your pet's body to burst. 

Some sliced/diced purple onion in a salad 

makes a nice veggie addition.

CARIBBEAN SALAD

ONE OF MY FAVORITE SALAD

Spinach, Mandarin Oranges, Red Onion and Walnuts

ONION STORAGE CONTAINER FOR FRIDGE

ONION ONION lalalaaaa 

oooooh 

i like onion,

d

'Life Just Got A Little Easier' Onions

"It is a good plan to boil onions in milk and water, it diminishes the strong taste of that vegetable.  It is an excellent way of serving up onions, to chop them after they are boiled, and put them in a stew-pan, with a little milk, butter, salt and pepper and let them stew about fifteen minutes.  This gives them a fine flavor and they can be served up very hot."

1 pound onions, white or brown,
   skinned
1 1/4 cup milk
2 tablespoons butter
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon pepper



I have saved old magazines for years intending to thumb through them on later dates as they are full of good recipes, decorating ideas, advice and fashion.  

In my stash that was saved from the fire, I came across a February 1985 Early American Life magazine that originally sold for $2.50.  It was their SPECIAL 15th Anniversary Issue.  


In the recipe section was this ONION recipe.



I cannot remember the last time I micro-waved a whole onion for a snack to eat or serve as a side dish.
Once I was desperate for a quick HOT meal.  I grabbed a ONION and cooked it in the micro-wave in one of those plastic onion cookers that's shaped like an onion. 




It was deliciously TENDER and I could do this more often.  

Onion rings from the SONIC are a favorite of mine that I might have 6 times a year, but aiming for less calories and fat eating a onion without crust counts as a winner.



AFFORDABLE.
DELICIOUS.
NUTRITIOUS.
EASY TO FIX.

I confess I have not ever used this Early American Life Recipe, 
but think it's worth a try.  

Tonight, maybe.
All vegetarian meal made simple.

Life just got a little easier,
d


Numbers 11:5 - We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick: