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An Ode to An Onion

October 15, 2015 By Jittery Cook 12 Comments

I still remember my first quiche Lorraine from Expo 67.  Lordy, Lordy, the way onions and leeks married with Gruyere and ham was positively sinful.  First dates featured onion soup at the long gone Continental restaurant in downtown Montreal. At high school grad, onion soup from La Crêpe Bretonne took center stage (along with their savoury cheese and mushroom crêpe slathered with maple syrup and a tart Dijon vinaigrette on Boston lettuce salad. Geez, that’s more detail than I can remember from four years of high school.)

To make your fall dinners spectacularly sweet, here are all the wonderful Jittery Cook onion-based recipes:

Apple Onion Soup with Thyme – Divine!

Awesome Roasted Leek Soup

Leek Potato Soup

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Leek Soup

Healthy Salad Recipe
Broccoli Sweet Onion Pecan Salad

55 Jittery Salads
Mango Red Onion Salad

Lentil and Rice Pilaf with Caramelized Onion

Six-Onion Pizza

Apple Onion Roasted Chicken

Crispy Onion Chicken

Fish Tacos with Pickled Red Onion and Salsa

Final notes:

  • According to Harriet Sugar Miller, onions and other alliums are just about the healthiest foods we can ingest.
  • I revere onions. Years ago when I assisted my sister as she wrote a cookbook, our colleague nicknamed her “Take an onion.” Every recipe began with that phrase. Raw or cooked, onions and their ilk are the backbone of practically every recipe, lending sweetness, sharpness, crunch, crispy bits or slithers of flavour. Brisket, pickled salmon, kasha, chicken soup — Where would they be without onions?
  • Looking for a ready made nutritional boost? Try Cafe Nutrimania – a vegan bistro that delivers.
Chef at Nutrimania
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Comments

  1. Erna says

    October 15, 2015 at 8:59 am

    You’ve brought back such great memories of Montreal in the seventies.

    Reply
    • Jittery Cook says

      October 15, 2015 at 10:03 am

      Time travel by onion!

      Reply
  2. liz says

    October 15, 2015 at 9:23 am

    omg I am so homesick again, 🙁

    Reply
    • Jittery Cook says

      October 15, 2015 at 10:04 am

      Great memories!

      Reply
  3. Carolyn says

    October 15, 2015 at 9:55 am

    Great photos, great post. Fall soup ideas!

    Reply
    • Jittery Cook says

      October 15, 2015 at 10:06 am

      I’m so enjoying the farm fresh onions this year. Firm, flavourful, delicious!

      Reply
    • Jittery Cook says

      October 15, 2015 at 9:03 pm

      Love these fall soups. Thanks for liking photos, post and recipes Carolyn.

      Reply
  4. Jovina Coughlin says

    October 15, 2015 at 5:47 pm

    So many delicious things you can do with onions

    Reply
    • Jittery Cook says

      October 15, 2015 at 7:54 pm

      I know!!

      Reply
  5. Jim doyle says

    December 12, 2015 at 7:35 am

    I remember how good that quiche was at Expo, but do you remember where it was sold?
    friends say it was somewhere at LaRonde but I Thought it was at the German pavilion.

    Reply
    • Jittery Cook says

      December 12, 2015 at 9:17 am

      I would give anything to be able to remember that well! And to taste that quiche again. We ate it off of thin paper plates that folded in half under the heat and weight of our slice of pie. Every bite was heavenly.

      Reply
  6. Bill Janes says

    May 6, 2017 at 9:45 am

    The Ham, Onion and Cheese Pie was our favourite food at Expo 67 along with the Italian Pavilion and it’s celery with cheese sauce. Both of which I keep trying to recreate with close but not perfect success to this date. Any manage to create these memories ?

    Reply

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