I love onions. I love green onions. I love red onions. I just love onions. Everything tastes better with onions. (I'm also a fan of mouthwash and mint gum.) That being said, I think I live in heaven on earth. The home of the most famous onion of all - the Walla Walla Sweet Onion, the most delicious onion on earth and in heaven! I also love Peter Pieri. He was the French soldier who found a sweet onion seed off the coast of Italy over a century ago and brought it back here . . . to my home. (Why he came to Walla Walla 100+ years ago, I don't know. Maybe some sweet love story motivated him. That would be so romantic and make such a good story. And then we might be famous for romance as well as onions. Like Juliet's wall, although that isn't famous for onions, just sweet romance.) But, for whatever reason, he came and he planted. And with sweet onion seed firmly in the Walla Walla soil, the rest, as they say, is history.
When we first moved to Walla Walla, my husband made each of us take a bite of a Walla Walla sweet onion, like an apple. We live here, he said. We need to experience it. Gross, I thought, but I was wrong. It was sweet and juicy and delicious and I've been a fan ever since.
If you are ever in Walla Walla in July (and, in case you were wondering, we actually ARE a destination place), visit our Sweet Onion Festival. Yes, we have a festival devoted to the sweet onion. Or if you'd just like to experience the Walla Walla sweet onion for yourself, you can order them at sweetonions.org. And they're not paying me to say this.
I just really love onions.
Fabulous as always! onions make almost everything taste better
ReplyDeleteI would love to try a walla walla onion. I used to love onions. I am finding the older I get ... I can't stand them! Maybe a walla walla would bring me back!
ReplyDeleteI'll have to try one. I love vidalia onions, sliced thick and grilled. Actually, I love all onions. (Like you, I am also a fan of gum and mints).
ReplyDeleteLove cooking with onions. Don't know much about the different kinds though. Maybe someday I'll do a taste test.
ReplyDeleteI love onions. Of course the south would disagree with you and say the Vadalias are the best, but what do they know? One of our claims to fame here is that Johnny Appleseed came through here and planted some of his famous apples.
ReplyDeleteI miss living in Washington!!! You're in Walla Walla? I was in Pierce County for 12 years. I miss buying Walla Walla sweets too. :(
ReplyDeleteare they anything like a vadalia onion---did you know onions are supposed to be good for lowering blood sugar--thanks for the info!
ReplyDeleteI'm a huge onion fan, too. Georgia has a famous sweet onion, too. The Vidalia onion. And you can eat it like an apple, too. But (blasphemy!) I'm not impressed with it. I don't WANT to eat an onion like an apple. If I want to eat something like an apple ... I'll have an apple! I like my onions to have some real zing to 'em.
ReplyDeleteI love onions, but my husband is not a fan. For a very long time I did't cook with them at all- cuz I love him. But, I've started using them and he is finding they aren't so bad. I'm not sure I've ever had a Walla Walla sweet. I wonder if I can buy them at the grocery store?
ReplyDeleteI do not eat onions. Well I don't! Mother has had to, as she puts it, "relearn to cook" because I make her leave all the onions out. I shuddered at the thought of onions being eaten as apples. Maybe someday I'll get over this utter onion dislike..
ReplyDeleteI love onions, too. I never thought about taking a bite from one like an apple though...hmmm... :)
ReplyDeleteHappy A-Z!
I put onions in absolutely EVERYTHING!
ReplyDeleteI even made an onion cake once, not as disgusting as it sounds but my Lil man acted as though I'd put strychnine in with the ingredients.
For him, onions are made by Satan.
For all you southerners . . I will give you this much - Vidalias are good. It's just that Walla Wallas are better :)
ReplyDeleteAnd Lily - I now will have to google "onion cake" because, as much as I love onions, it kind of does sound disgusting :)
Crazy huge onion fanatics in our house. Very few meals start without peeling some form of onion or other.
ReplyDeleteYes PLEASE! I LOVE onions!
ReplyDeleteI agree! Onions are awesome. If you add garlic to them, they just get better.
ReplyDeleteHi there - popped by to thank you for stopping off at Gonna Eat Worms and thought you might be interested in this song (you have probably heard it before) but Walla Walla gets a mention!
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOpxdUjPiAs
cheers
That's a great song - loved it! Thanks!
DeleteHave never heard that song! It was great - thanks for sharing it!
DeleteLove those Walla Walla onions!
ReplyDeleteOh! My teenage son LOVES onions...seems like a long trip from Central New York, but I am sure there is much more we should see there as well!
ReplyDeleteYou may be crying ... but you made me laugh. I love grilled onions best of all. Thanks for being a bright spot. Glad to hear you like mint gum....
ReplyDeleteI like onions as long as they are cooked. But lately though, with the pregnancy heartburn and reflux, I have to leave off eating onions. :(
ReplyDeleteI hate onions, but my kids love them. Raw, cooked, doesn't matter....so, I buy onions and cook with onions and love my kids!
ReplyDeleteEveryone else in my family loves onions. Though I do enjoy certain foods that have minced onions cooked in. Great history lesson! Julie
ReplyDeletewalla walla onion, sounds so exotic to me, sort of like something Hawaï.. can not imagine biting in it ! :)
ReplyDeletei love vadalias which I am guessing are related to walla wallas or maybe just to sweet onions in general?
ReplyDeleteHhhmm.. Green onions are my favorite.. And for whatever reason, red onions, just the very scent of them, gives me an instant migraine.
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