Onions ~Don't cry they won't hurt you!

"Onions, one of the oldest vegetables, are found in a large number of recipes and preparations spanning almost the totality of the world's cultures. They are now available in fresh, frozen, canned, caramelized, pickled, powdered, chopped, and dehydrated forms. Onions can be used, usually chopped or sliced, in almost every type of food, including cooked foods and fresh salads and as a spicy garnish. They are rarely eaten on their own, but usually act as accompaniment to the main course. Depending on the variety, an onion can be sharp, spicy, tangy and pungent or mild and sweet."~~~Wikipeda

Caramelizing onions, by slowly cooking them in a little olive oil until they are richly browned, is a wonderful way to pull flavor out of the simplest of ingredients. Onions are naturally sweet; and as caramel comes from the simple cooking of sugar, when you slowly cook onions over an extended period of time, the natural sugars in the onions caramelize, making the result intensely and wonderfully flavorful.

Pickled Tickled Cabbage

Pickled tickled cabbage, I found this recipe on a Food Buzz blog. Although I'm not a vegetarian I like to make lots of colorful salads and vegetable dishes. I renamed it Pickled Tickled Cabbage because the red onions tickled my nose as sliced them. The recipe is as follows:

1 head red cabbage, sliced thin

2 red onions, sliced thin
2 jalapeño peppers seeded, diced

5 cups boiling water

2tsp salt

2Tbs sugar

Apple cider vinegar
Mexican Oregano

Add sliced cabbage, onions and jalapeño peppers to a bowl, cover with boiling water for about a minute, drain. Transfer to a glass container and fill with the apple cider vinegar just to cover the cabbage, add salt, sugar and oregano, mix and keep covered in the fridge for a couple days.