Green Onions

Whenever I go to the grocery store, specialty food store, warehouse club store, farmers market... well you get the idea,  one thing I always look for is big fat green onions.  

From the Dekalb Farmers Market in Atlanta GA



The onions you see in the picture here are not particularly fat.  They are a little bigger than I usually see in most stores, but still not that great.  The other day, I found some Vidalia Onions that I would classify as great big fat green onions.  They were not the typical Vidalia Onions that you see that have been dried and look like a normal onion with dry skin around them.  These were next to the leeks and  tiny, tiny green onions and were under the sprinkler system of the local Stop & Shop store.  I bought them and have since eaten them.

As an aside here, Vidalia Onions from Vidalia GA are usually best bought in May.  These onions need to be harvested and dried in large warehouses for many months before they are perfect.  When I lived in Atlanta, the business I managed actually owned a Vidalia farm and every May the two brothers that ran it would drive up to Atlanta and deliver boxes of onions to me--I was pretty much in heaven.

By now you probably have figured out that I LOVE onions.  I eat a lot of onions.  When I was a kid, I used to eat onions like others ate apples.  I don't do that any more--although I am not sure if it is because my stomach couldn't tolerate it or if I am saving the rest of people I interact with from an onion aroma.  I hate to think of what I smelled like as a kid.

Anyway, I'll keep searching for the big fat green onion that will make my salad perfect.