On 10/23/2015 11:13 AM, gtr wrote:
> On 2015-10-16 17:05:13 +0000, gtr said:
>
>> I picked up a bag of [pearl onions] onions and a Peruvian sweet onion
>> and will put them each in a pint of vodka later today. I'm going to
>> peel and slice the cippolini's in half, maybe quarters. The sweet
>> onion I'm going to just cut a few slices of. We'll see. I can't
>> imagine it will taste good as is, but the idea of carmelizing them is
>> a little difficult to imagine too. If these fail with no particularly
>> educational take-away, it will the sauté pan for the next guess.
>
> Update:
>
> Okay the pearl onions, blanched enough to peel, about 8 in a pint. Gave
> them 72 hours. It sucks. They have that slightly nasty oxidized/BO
> smell, and a mild but somewhat unpleasant taste. Normally I would chill
> it to see how it works--it's always different when froze up, but in this
> case I don't care. Down the drain.
>
> The sweet onion worked better. In fact I think it does make a fairly
> good infusion. The problem is that it tastes like an onion, and an
> onion flavor alone is kind of useless; it's just columns in front of no
> building. I'm straining it and holding on to it today.
>
> People who are bloody Mary fans (I am not), apparently use this in a
> larger concoction, and might consider this a glowing success.
>
> I might try to infuse it with tomato for two reasons: 1) It might be
> drinkable, chilled, as is. 2) I'd like to see if another flavor can
> leverage the onions in a good way since as a solo act it simply doesn't
> work.
>
> Failing all this, I may well try to slice and slightly carmelize an
> onion, perhaps a sweet onion, perhaps not, and start anew. At this point
> I'm fairly secure than a predominant onion taste (even if padded with
> caraway seeds, dill seeds, etc.), is pretty much useless.
>
> I have 3 more 1.7 liter bottles of Luksusowa, and without some zazz
> don't really care for vodka, so I have plenty more running room.
>
I'd like to know how/why people keep dredging up really old posts to
respond to. The dumber the better, it seems. Unfortunately, given
the current situation in rfc even an old and stupid post like the one
about rfc is better than half the posts here.
--
Barbara J Llorente