Red onion in salad!

[Ult-Jim]

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

[Ult-Jim]

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