… and other amazing things I learned on Pinterest.
This is probably old news to everyone but me. I tend to be on the downward slope of the bell curve when it comes to kitchen innovation. And, I don’t know why that is because I love all things kitchen. I know I’m on the bell curve backside when it comes to Pinterest. I’ve been avoiding it like the plague. My daughters are all over it, love it, rave about it, beg me to take a look. But, I would not be tempted by their sweet siren song since what I do NOT need is another reason to spend time on the computer.
Hello. My name is Lady Why and I’m a facebookaholic.
But, enough about that. I caved to the lure of Pinterest when my daughter brought me this tip. It’s very simple. Once you buy yourself a bunch of green onions and you chop up the delicious goodness of those crisp oniony tops, stick the white roots into a cup, bowl, or container of your choice filled with water and watch the magic happen.
That’s right, gentle reader. The onions will sprout and regrow more delcious crispy green onion goodness in about five days. And, you know what? You can do it again. And again. And again. At least five times, this I know. We’ll see how long those wonderful green onions will keep performing.
Think about the money this is going to save! I buy organic green onions, a big bite to the wallet. Now I’m getting at least
five times the onion for the price. I haven’t tried it but I hear tell (via the wisdom of Pinterest) that this works with conventional green onions as well.
HOW DID I NOT KNOW THIS ALL THESE YEARS??
In the event that you have also been living in the kitchen dark ages, you’ve now been enlightened to what works for me!
that’s funny, I just started doing mine this way too (used to just plant them in the dirt and they’d take off too) … I found that IF you put them in shallow water, just the bottom parts, they grow better … not all leggy, I think because they have a high concentration of water already they can get a little waterlogged?
My problem with this…is that the white root part is the the actual onion and my fav part – if I only wanted the tops, I would use chives.
Ahhh, Kim, that is a problem. My favorite part is the green, the darkest green at that. I’m now wondering if this works with leeks. My favorite part of the leek is the white part, but I love the greens too. I might have to forgo the white if it will continually resprout and grow terrific tops like the green onions do.
Have you seen this done with celery??? Exciting stuff!