Vegetables — hearty chunks of onions, cauliflower, green and yellow peppers — also took well to their turn in the oven's high heat.
I liked other appetizers as well: a dandelion salad with red onion and hard-boiled egg, the greens faintly bitter and so fresh they called to mind kite flying against a brilliant blue spring sky; gently sauteed calamari with sweet chunks of onions and green peas in a mild white wine sauce; and another of shrimp cooked with butter and Sambuca over garlic toast.
6. Alternate sandwich choices could include: peanut butter and grape jelly, peanut butter and marshmallow fluff, the end of last night's leftover roast beef or the ever popular with children tuna fish with large chunks of onions and celery and Miracle Whip.
Add the pickles to the chunks of onions and jalapeno peppers.
For my stuffing, I'll use broken-up sourdough, chunks of onion and a really good sausage meat.
On the stove behind him, a snare-drum-size stockpot roiled, chunks of onion, garlic and ribs of celery bobbing on the surface.
Pakora, an Indian version of tempura, consists of chunks of onion, cauliflower, spinach and potato dredged in chickpea flour and deep-fried, again greaselessly.
2 Preheat the oven to 210/425F/gas mark 7. Sit the turkey on some chunks of onion, carrot, swede and celery, then add the giblets and a bottle of dry vermouth to the roasting tray to flavour the gravy (see below).
While your mother prepares dinner that evening, a lentil stew thickened with chunks of onion, not because onions are her favorite ingredient but because they appear to add substance to a meal and today in the market they were cheap, it may not seem that you are a lucky child.
The Mexicana salad (greens with avocado, jicama, mango, and a spicy chipotle dressing) is just as good a reason to eat here as the main courses, and so is the rustic black-bean soup, the whole-bean kind, with big chunks of onion and tomato and a handful of fresh cilantro.
I roast the bones in a hot oven with chunks of onion, carrot, celery and leek for an hour, then put them in a large stockpot with garlic, tomato, herbs and spices, cover them with water, and bring to the boil.
