Texans Love Their Onions

Onions are one of our most ancient vegetables for cooking. People also use them for their medicinal qualities. Onions are available in many styles, and, when properly used, add a perfect touch to your dish.

Most grocery stores offer white and yellow onions. Texans cook with lots of yellow onions, which are sometimes called sweet onions because of their sweeter flavor.

Other vegetables in the onion family include garlic, and leeks. Garlic is extremely potent and flavorful. Leeks consist of long green stalks with white bulbs on one end. Leeks have a milder flavor then onions, and are wonderful in soups.

Some people treat their colds and flus with a tall grass of carrot juice with one or two cloves of garlic. The result is a palatable drink. You may have to hold your nose when drinking!

Cooking With Onions
Read through the recipes as to cooking methods. It is very common to begin a recipe by sauting sliced onion in a pan or skillet. The favor of the onion comes out in the oil as it browns.

Onions can even be cooked long enough to become caramelized. This process is used in a delicious "onion gravy" for mashed potatoes See recipe. This gravy recipe illustrates the versatility in this vegetable.

Onion Recipes

• French Onion Soup
  This delicious and flavorful soup uses onions at their finest. Makes a fine main course.
• Baked Onions Piquant
  
• Stuffed Sweet Onions
  
• Onion Tart with Sherry Peppers Sauce
  Try this interesting side dish.
• Onion Relish