Red onion in salad!
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Hi folks, no gourmet chef, but like quality food. I work and live in a job where we have a full time chef in this case with an English pub food background who puts red onion in every salad!! It drives me mad! I find it too strong and over powering for my taste buds. Is this an English taste gene? Our location and my home is in the Southern European Med countries and I have a liking for Southern European (Spanish, Italina & Greek healthy food) but with red onion or even spring onion in abundance in each dish? It make me go mad! I find it over powering on my taste buds.
Please vote yeh or ney. On onion in salad and spring onion in general, especially as a garnish to some dishes. I'm a fellow Englishman, and apart from a traditional English pub ploughmans with pickle onion, large lump of cheddar cheese and abundance of onion in a side salad, is this acceptable from a professional chef who also caters for some of the wealthiest people on the planet?
Your thoughts are much appreciated as I am no expert
Ult-Jim
Ps, eating red onion makes me want to drive my Cateham R500 and Ultima GTR even harder when on leave well it is a car forum after all
Please vote yeh or ney. On onion in salad and spring onion in general, especially as a garnish to some dishes. I'm a fellow Englishman, and apart from a traditional English pub ploughmans with pickle onion, large lump of cheddar cheese and abundance of onion in a side salad, is this acceptable from a professional chef who also caters for some of the wealthiest people on the planet?
Your thoughts are much appreciated as I am no expert
Ult-Jim
Ps, eating red onion makes me want to drive my Cateham R500 and Ultima GTR even harder when on leave well it is a car forum after all
Ult-Jim said:
Hi folks, no gourmet chef, but like quality food. I work and live in a job where we have a full time chef in this case with an English pub food background who puts red onion in every salad!! It drives me mad! I find it too strong and over powering for my taste buds. Is this an English taste gene? Our location and my home is in the Southern European Med countries and I have a liking for Southern European (Spanish, Italina & Greek healthy food) but with red onion or even spring onion in abundance in each dish? It make me go mad! I find it over powering on my taste buds.
Please vote yeh or ney. On onion in salad and spring onion in general, especially as a garnish to some dishes. I'm a fellow Englishman, and apart from a traditional English pub ploughmans with pickle onion, large lump of cheddar cheese and abundance of onion in a side salad, is this acceptable from a professional chef who also caters for some of the wealthiest people on the planet?
Your thoughts are much appreciated as I am no expert
Ult-Jim
Ps, eating red onion makes me want to drive my Cateham R500 and Ultima GTR even harder when on leave well it is a car forum after all
Please vote yeh or ney. On onion in salad and spring onion in general, especially as a garnish to some dishes. I'm a fellow Englishman, and apart from a traditional English pub ploughmans with pickle onion, large lump of cheddar cheese and abundance of onion in a side salad, is this acceptable from a professional chef who also caters for some of the wealthiest people on the planet?
Your thoughts are much appreciated as I am no expert
Ult-Jim
Ps, eating red onion makes me want to drive my Cateham R500 and Ultima GTR even harder when on leave well it is a car forum after all
Ult-Jim said:
21TonyK said:
In lieu of shallot a finely sliced red onion is a reasonable alternative. If its too strong marinate with salt and a little lemon juice first.
Many thanks, I will try that Urban Sports said:
Ult-Jim said:
Hi folks, no gourmet chef, but like quality food. I work and live in a job where we have a full time chef in this case with an English pub food background who puts red onion in every salad!! It drives me mad! I find it too strong and over powering for my taste buds. Is this an English taste gene? Our location and my home is in the Southern European Med countries and I have a liking for Southern European (Spanish, Italina & Greek healthy food) but with red onion or even spring onion in abundance in each dish? It make me go mad! I find it over powering on my taste buds.
Please vote yeh or ney. On onion in salad and spring onion in general, especially as a garnish to some dishes. I'm a fellow Englishman, and apart from a traditional English pub ploughmans with pickle onion, large lump of cheddar cheese and abundance of onion in a side salad, is this acceptable from a professional chef who also caters for some of the wealthiest people on the planet?
Your thoughts are much appreciated as I am no expert
Ult-Jim
Ps, eating red onion makes me want to drive my Cateham R500 and Ultima GTR even harder when on leave well it is a car forum after all
Please vote yeh or ney. On onion in salad and spring onion in general, especially as a garnish to some dishes. I'm a fellow Englishman, and apart from a traditional English pub ploughmans with pickle onion, large lump of cheddar cheese and abundance of onion in a side salad, is this acceptable from a professional chef who also caters for some of the wealthiest people on the planet?
Your thoughts are much appreciated as I am no expert
Ult-Jim
Ps, eating red onion makes me want to drive my Cateham R500 and Ultima GTR even harder when on leave well it is a car forum after all
Here's a bit of advice though, if he is your PERSONAL chef try asking him not to put onions in the salad.
Raw onion.
I don't mind it in late-night drunken street food: a kebab isn't a kebab without onion, but that's it.
I do not want any kind of onion in my lunchtime salad and to be tasting it all afternoon. M&S are the worst offenders.
There isn't a single M&S leafy salad which doesn't have feckin' red onion sneaked in. Moreover it's sliced thinly so you can't pick it all out.
I don't mind it in late-night drunken street food: a kebab isn't a kebab without onion, but that's it.
I do not want any kind of onion in my lunchtime salad and to be tasting it all afternoon. M&S are the worst offenders.
There isn't a single M&S leafy salad which doesn't have feckin' red onion sneaked in. Moreover it's sliced thinly so you can't pick it all out.
Pferdestarke said:
You've got to be careful with raw onion in salad as it can leave a horrible aftertaste.
Roasted red onion in a salad with some duck fat croutons and streaky lardons takes it to another dimension.
But after a serving of lardons, do you feel invigorated to have a spirited drive in your Veyron Supersport?Roasted red onion in a salad with some duck fat croutons and streaky lardons takes it to another dimension.
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