Sweet Cipolline
January 3, 2008
I was quite a sight to see this afternoon: huge tears rolling down my face, my nose running, and humming Neil Diamond’s “Sweet Caroline.” Really, I haven’t lost it. I was, however, trimming and peeling a package of cipolline onions for tonight’s dinner. These are the most adorable little guys — they look like they were squashed flat before they were able to grow into big, round grown-up onions.
They were also impossible to peel, and so potent it really felt like someone had thrown sulfuric acid in my face. (Sulfuric acid? Yeah, I had to look that one up, too.) However, they are mighty cute and I am looking forward to eating them in… oh… 15 minutes or so.
Sing with me: Sweet cipolline! Good times never seemed so good…
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1. Roasted Chicken on Veggie&hellip | January 4, 2008 at 6:02 pm
[...] Simple magazine, as I made it last night. The veggies are parsnips (leftovers from making soup), cipolline onions (they were delicious but no more wonderful than a roasted Vidalia), carnival squash (the very last [...]
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Jodi | January 9, 2008 at 1:41 pm
Kind of creepy if he really wrote that song about Caroline Kennedy…when she was only like 10 years old?? Anyway, that really doesn’t have anything to do with the cipolline onions which I had never heard of before this post:O)
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