A Taste to Acquire: Onions

For those of you who enjoy onions, feel free to read this post for entertainment.

As for the rest of you, we need to talk.

I know what you're thinking. Onions are gross and you avoid them at all costs. Well don't. You know why? Because deep down, underneath (and in between) each layer there is delicious flavor that doesn't make you cry.

Are you still cynical about them? Well probably, because I haven't explained anything yet. Let me come down to your level for a second, you onion-prejudice commoner. To bite into a raw onion, is to bite into a bitter ball of bitch that bites back. I understand. But here's what you may be missing: Onions will treat you right if you give them tender love and warmth. Actually, they don't even care about the love part at all. The point it, they are indeed no good raw; but if you cook them, they are actually quite good.

For instance, I bet if I offered you an onion ring, you wouldn't object. Well, some of you still would out of total stubbornness, which is wastes both your time and mine, so just listen to me. The onion ring has a wonderful breaded outer layer that we all so dearly love, and the onion, the heart of this appetizer, the reason this wonder fried piece of heaven exists, doesn't taste all too bad when it becomes semi-translucent and can be slurped right into your mouth.

These little guys are a great flavor, you just need to cook the bite out of it. For instance, you are tired of plain ol' eggs every morning, but they are cheap, so it's what you buy. Before you scrabble them up, saute some onions up, add a dash of garlic powder and then throw those eggs in. They bring your boring egg breakfast up a few notches. Or say you have had ramen every night for the past week and it's all you have to eat, boil up those onions before your throw the noodles in. Tuna all you have for sandwiches? Cut up onions into little pieces and saute them so you can add another texture to your fishy goodness.

The thing is, a lot of cheap foods are bland and/or easy to get tired of, but since onions are cheap as well, they are a great flavor to contribute to many meals. Also, if you are a garlic lover like me, onions go hand in hand with garlic.

Any questions? Because you an onions can be friends now.