Can I make spring onion soup?

Jude said:

I dug about a pound of spring onions out of my backyard today. I'm
thinking about trying to make an onion soup with them.

My thoughts:
1. make a deep mushroom stock (we don't do beef, chicken, or any
mammal-meat)
2. sautee the spring onions along with maybe 1 red onion to supplement
3. add to stock and simmer along with some worcestershire, soy, red
wine to deeped the flavor to mimic the traditional beef stock
4. top with french bread and swiss cheese, run under the broiler

My question is, would the mild taste of the onions be overpowered if I
try to make the stock too intense? Is this soup a waste of the fresh
milld taste of spring onions? Is there a better idea for them? What
would you do?

My other thought was that they would make a nice quiche, with havarti
cheese.

Personally, I like to just chomp on them on the side while eating a
sandwich.

Tonight I had chicken noodle soup, with chopped green onions added.
Yesterday I made an egg drop soup (chicken stock, beaten egg, lemon juice)
with them added. Often I put them in an omelet.

They go pretty fast around my place.

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Jude said:

I dug about a pound of spring onions out of my backyard today. I'm
thinking about trying to make an onion soup with them.

My thoughts:
1. make a deep mushroom stock (we don't do beef, chicken, or any
mammal-meat)
2. sautee the spring onions along with maybe 1 red onion to supplement
3. add to stock and simmer along with some worcestershire, soy, red
wine to deeped the flavor to mimic the traditional beef stock
4. top with french bread and swiss cheese, run under the broiler

My question is, would the mild taste of the onions be overpowered if I
try to make the stock too intense? Is this soup a waste of the fresh
milld taste of spring onions? Is there a better idea for them? What
would you do?

My other thought was that they would make a nice quiche, with havarti
cheese.

Make quiche.
--

Ham and eggs.
A day's work for a chicken, a lifetime commitment for a pig.

Jude said:

I dug about a pound of spring onions out of my backyard today. I'm
thinking about trying to make an onion soup with them.

My thoughts:
1. make a deep mushroom stock (we don't do beef, chicken, or any
mammal-meat)
2. sautee the spring onions along with maybe 1 red onion to supplement
3. add to stock and simmer along with some worcestershire, soy, red
wine to deeped the flavor to mimic the traditional beef stock
4. top with french bread and swiss cheese, run under the broiler

My question is, would the mild taste of the onions be overpowered if I
try to make the stock too intense? Is this soup a waste of the fresh
milld taste of spring onions? Is there a better idea for them? What
would you do?

I make a spring vegetable soup with white miso, spring onions, shredded
lettuce, and fresh peas. Sometimes I add mint.

I wouldn't try to mimic a classic onion soup using spring onions, because
that's a hearty soup which calls for hearty onions.

Bob

sf said:

Jude said:

I dug about a pound of spring onions out of my backyard today. I'm
thinking about trying to make an onion soup with them.

My thoughts:
1. make a deep mushroom stock (we don't do beef, chicken, or any
mammal-meat)
2. sautee the spring onions along with maybe 1 red onion to supplement
3. add to stock and simmer along with some worcestershire, soy, red
wine to deeped the flavor to mimic the traditional beef stock
4. top with french bread and swiss cheese, run under the broiler

My question is, would the mild taste of the onions be overpowered if I
try to make the stock too intense? Is this soup a waste of the fresh
milld taste of spring onions? Is there a better idea for them? What
would you do?

My other thought was that they would make a nice quiche, with havarti
cheese.

Make quiche.

I second that! I notice, reading the Menu Planning thread, that Serene's
website has a recipe for the very thing.

Christine

Jude said:

I dug about a pound of spring onions out of my backyard today. I'm
thinking about trying to make an onion soup with them.

You can do anything you like with those onions. I just hope they are spring
onions you planted, rather than the oniony things I call "weeds', although I
don't see why they wouldn't work, too 😉 After all, my grandmother used to
cook dandelion greens and wild garlic. Hmmm.

Jill

jmcquown said:

Jude said:

I dug about a pound of spring onions out of my backyard today. I'm
thinking about trying to make an onion soup with them.

You can do anything you like with those onions. I just hope they are spring
onions you planted, rather than the oniony things I call "weeds', although I
don't see why they wouldn't work, too 😉

I discovered last year that I have wild spring onions; they grow all
over here. My daughter dug some up for me after she helped me weed the
herb garden, and she noticed that they were identical to the planted
chives. We dug them up and did some research and sure enough, spring
onions/chives grow wild in this area. So now we dig em up before mowing
the lawn, andeat em!!

Organic wild food at its best!

After all, my grandmother used to

Quoted message said:

cook dandelion greens and wild garlic. Hmmm.

canb't beat the free stuff......

so based on consensus, quiche it is.

jmcquown said:

Jude said:

I dug about a pound of spring onions out of my backyard today. I'm
thinking about trying to make an onion soup with them.

You can do anything you like with those onions. I just hope they are spring
onions you planted, rather than the oniony things I call "weeds', although I
don't see why they wouldn't work, too 😉

Some people can become deathly ill from consuming wild onion (there are
many varieties), eat only a very small amount at first. Livestock can
die from grazing where wild onion is present... never feed any onion to
cats. Onion is an allium, many alliums are deadly poisonous, like
daffodils, even dumb deer know better than to eat daffodils, yet some
of yoose think wild onion is just fine and dandy.

Many years ago wild onions were springing up in the lawn of my newly
purchased first house in the country (then Lung Guyland was mostly
rural). I had just prepared a sardine sandwich and thought why not,
went out to gather a handful of those onions thinking they were no
different from those at the stupidmarket. Wrong! Did I get sick,
spent an entire day and night sitting on the throne excreting puss-like
slime, very painful... I get the shivers just thinking about it.

Sheldon

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Jude said:

I dug about a pound of spring onions out of my backyard today. I'm
thinking about trying to make an onion soup with them.

My thoughts:
1. make a deep mushroom stock (we don't do beef, chicken, or any
mammal-meat)
2. sautee the spring onions along with maybe 1 red onion to supplement
3. add to stock and simmer along with some worcestershire, soy, red
wine to deeped the flavor to mimic the traditional beef stock
4. top with french bread and swiss cheese, run under the broiler

My question is, would the mild taste of the onions be overpowered if I
try to make the stock too intense? Is this soup a waste of the fresh
milld taste of spring onions? Is there a better idea for them? What
would you do?

I'm going to dissent with majority opinion. I'd go ahead and make a
soup, but I'd use a lighter broth rather than a mushroom stock (I
wouldn't use mushroom anyway, but that's beside the point), I wouldn't
use any other onion with them, and I wouldn't saute them. I'd simmer
them briefly in the broth. If you want to saute something, I'd saute
the white part, and simmer the green part, two levels to your soup. I
also wouldn't do the swiss cheese, though the crouton sounds nice. No
worcestershire, maybe a touch of soy sauce, no red wine. A light soup,
I'd see it as a starter, or serve it with a heavier salad to make a
meal, a salad with eggs in it.

Regards,
Ranee

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sf said:

Jude said:

I dug about a pound of spring onions out of my backyard today. I'm
thinking about trying to make an onion soup with them.

My thoughts:
1. make a deep mushroom stock (we don't do beef, chicken, or any
mammal-meat)
2. sautee the spring onions along with maybe 1 red onion to supplement
3. add to stock and simmer along with some worcestershire, soy, red
wine to deeped the flavor to mimic the traditional beef stock
4. top with french bread and swiss cheese, run under the broiler

My question is, would the mild taste of the onions be overpowered if I
try to make the stock too intense? Is this soup a waste of the fresh
milld taste of spring onions? Is there a better idea for them? What
would you do?

My other thought was that they would make a nice quiche, with havarti
cheese.

Make quiche.

Agreed.
I don't think they would work well for soup.
The flavor is wrong, and it's no longer soup weather anyway.
At least not here. ;-)

As a soup garnish, they are fine.
Mom used to use them over ramen noodles amoung other things.

I've also served them steamed as a side dish with meat and mushrooms.

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sf said:

Jude said:

I dug about a pound of spring onions out of my backyard today. I'm
thinking about trying to make an onion soup with them.

My thoughts:
1. make a deep mushroom stock (we don't do beef, chicken, or any
mammal-meat)
2. sautee the spring onions along with maybe 1 red onion to supplement
3. add to stock and simmer along with some worcestershire, soy, red
wine to deeped the flavor to mimic the traditional beef stock
4. top with french bread and swiss cheese, run under the broiler

My question is, would the mild taste of the onions be overpowered if I
try to make the stock too intense? Is this soup a waste of the fresh
milld taste of spring onions? Is there a better idea for them? What
would you do?

My other thought was that they would make a nice quiche, with havarti
cheese.

Make quiche.

Agreed.
I don't think they would work well for soup.
The flavor is wrong, and it's no longer soup weather anyway.
At least not here. ;-)

It's not soup weather here either, but I hear Texas is scorching! It was 93
F degrees here in Tampa yesterday.

kili

Sheldon said:

jmcquown said:

Jude said:

I dug about a pound of spring onions out of my backyard today. I'm
thinking about trying to make an onion soup with them.

You can do anything you like with those onions. I just hope they are spring
onions you planted, rather than the oniony things I call "weeds', although I
don't see why they wouldn't work, too 😉

Some people can become deathly ill from consuming wild onion (there are
many varieties), eat only a very small amount at first. Livestock can
die from grazing where wild onion is present... never feed any onion to
cats. Onion is an allium, many alliums are deadly poisonous, like
daffodils, even dumb deer know better than to eat daffodils, yet some
of yoose think wild onion is just fine and dandy.

Many years ago wild onions were springing up in the lawn of my newly
purchased first house in the country (then Lung Guyland was mostly
rural). I had just prepared a sardine sandwich and thought why not,
went out to gather a handful of those onions thinking they were no
different from those at the stupidmarket. Wrong! Did I get sick,
spent an entire day and night sitting on the throne excreting puss-like
slime, very painful... I get the shivers just thinking about it.

Sheldon

Interesting...
I know the ones I grow are fine.
I eat them every year.

My cats have never been interested in the onion greens, but I don't
offer them to them either.

The only "live" greens they get are fresh catmint. ;-) This years catnip
patch is coming along nicely. They will be able to enjoy it fairly soon.

OmManiPadmiOmelet said:

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My cats have never been interested in the onion greens, but I don't
offer them to them either.

Don't feed cats any onions of any kind, not cooked either.

http://cats.about.com/cs/catfood/a/humanfood.htm

Don't love your pets to death.

Sheldon

Sheldon said:

OmManiPadmiOmelet said:

Quoted message said:

My cats have never been interested in the onion greens, but I don't
offer them to them either.

Don't feed cats any onions of any kind, not cooked either.

http://cats.about.com/cs/catfood/a/humanfood.htm

Don't love your pets to death.

Sheldon

Don't feed onions to your dog, either. Same reason.

Sandy

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sf said:

On 20 Apr 2006 18:58:52 -0700, Jude wrote:

>I dug about a pound of spring onions out of my backyard today. I'm
>thinking about trying to make an onion soup with them.
>
>My thoughts:
>1. make a deep mushroom stock (we don't do beef, chicken, or any
>mammal-meat)
>2. sautee the spring onions along with maybe 1 red onion to supplement
>3. add to stock and simmer along with some worcestershire, soy, red
>wine to deeped the flavor to mimic the traditional beef stock
>4. top with french bread and swiss cheese, run under the broiler
>
>My question is, would the mild taste of the onions be overpowered if I
>try to make the stock too intense? Is this soup a waste of the fresh
>milld taste of spring onions? Is there a better idea for them? What
>would you do?
>
>My other thought was that they would make a nice quiche, with havarti
>cheese.

Make quiche.

Agreed.
I don't think they would work well for soup.
The flavor is wrong, and it's no longer soup weather anyway.
At least not here. ;-)

It's not soup weather here either, but I hear Texas is scorching! It was 93
F degrees here in Tampa yesterday.

kili

It's not been too bad here yet, just in the upper 80's to lower 90's.
Nasty weather tho' but we were not damaged.

5 miles or so down the road at the outlet mall, many cars and buildings
got damaged 2 days ago with baseball sized hail. ;-(

Ouch!

Sheldon said:

OmManiPadmiOmelet said:

My cats have never been interested in the onion greens, but I don't
offer them to them either.

Don't feed cats any onions of any kind, not cooked either.

http://cats.about.com/cs/catfood/a/humanfood.htm

Don't love your pets to death.

Sheldon

I'm pretty careful...... :-)
They get cat food and the occasional offerings of fresh meat.

Fresh or dried catnip too.

That's pretty much it.

Try growing a patch of fresh catnip for your kids.
It's fun!

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jmcquown said:

Jude said:

I dug about a pound of spring onions out of my backyard today. I'm
thinking about trying to make an onion soup with them.

You can do anything you like with those onions. I just hope they are
spring
onions you planted, rather than the oniony things I call "weeds',
although I
don't see why they wouldn't work, too 😉

Some people can become deathly ill from consuming wild onion (there are
many varieties), eat only a very small amount at first. Livestock can
die from grazing where wild onion is present... never feed any onion to
cats. Onion is an allium, many alliums are deadly poisonous, like
daffodils, even dumb deer know better than to eat daffodils, yet some
of yoose think wild onion is just fine and dandy.

Daffodils are not in the Allium family or genus, Sheldon.

Jude said:

I dug about a pound of spring onions out of my backyard today. I'm
thinking about trying to make an onion soup with them.

Quoted message said:

My other thought was that they would make a nice quiche, with havarti
cheese.

You planted these right? When we have too many onions I love to make an
onion torte/pie. French onion style soup that you suggested is another
good one and any broth should work ok. I like French onion soup in the
winter. The torte is a good summer dish and goes well with a salad and
nice white wine.

Sheldon said:

jmcquown said:

Jude said:

I dug about a pound of spring onions out of my backyard today. I'm
thinking about trying to make an onion soup with them.

You can do anything you like with those onions. I just hope they are spring
onions you planted, rather than the oniony things I call "weeds', although I
don't see why they wouldn't work, too 😉

Some people can become deathly ill from consuming wild onion (there are
many varieties), eat only a very small amount at first. Livestock can
die from grazing where wild onion is present... never feed any onion to
cats. Onion is an allium, many alliums are deadly poisonous, like
daffodils, even dumb deer know better than to eat daffodils, yet some
of yoose think wild onion is just fine and dandy.

I appreciate the concern, but we ate these same onions last year, out
of the yard, right as spring began. I suspect they have rooted from the
chives in the herb gardens a few feet away and have grown underground
to begin new patches here and there. The visible part is identical to
the chives we planted 2 years ago, which began to grow at the same time
and same rate as these spring onions.

I'm pretty sure they're safe; sisn't make me ill either ofthe last 2
years. If they were mushrooms, I might worry more.

Thanks though!

OmManiPadmiOmelet said:

sf said:

On 20 Apr 2006 18:58:52 -0700, Jude wrote:

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Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

My other thought was that they would make a nice quiche, with havarti
cheese.

Make quiche.

Agreed.
I don't think they would work well for soup.
The flavor is wrong, and it's no longer soup weather anyway.
At least not here. ;-)

As a soup garnish, they are fine.
Mom used to use them over ramen noodles amoung other things.

I've also served them steamed as a side dish with meat and mushrooms.

Have you ever thrown them on the grill? They are great served with a
little sprinkle of lemon juice and eaten with your fingers. We
usually do it when we grill up fajita meat.
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Ham and eggs.
A day's work for a chicken, a lifetime commitment for a pig.