I wanted some room to plant my new organic veg plants. So we lifted a raised bed or two of onions and I topped and tailed them and the pigs got two buckets of onion stalks for their tea.
Then we peeled them and washed them and chopped them into four pieces and put them in the pull string vegetable dicer that we bought in you know where and ended up with twenty four bags of chopped onions. That's 24 meal portions to be precise.
Next harvest is the peas. Do you freeze your onions?
You just peel them and chop them into 4 pieces and place them in the chopper, pull the string and it cuts your full onions into centimetre sized pieces. Just fill a freezer bag and you have enough for four people.
Update. Hand string pulled onion chopper:
We don't grow onions but I do buy frozen chopped onions from the supermarket to use in soups and casseroles. Although I like fried or raw onions they most definitely do not like me!
ReplyDeleteWe grow lots of onions JayCee. In September we plant our Japanese onions sets. We are going to fill one of the chest freezers with our organic vegetables and buy mince and any meat the supermarket is selling off. We love stews, casseroles and curries which you just add a bag of onions to them.
DeleteWow 24 bags of diced onions. I wish someone would do that for me. That's a great convenience.
ReplyDeleteYes Linda a great convenience. The pull string chopper from Lidl is brilliant. I will post a photo of it for you.
ReplyDeleteI do like that cutter...that would save many tears!!
ReplyDeleteI do freeze chopped onions.
I like open freezing things on trays then boxing them...means that you don't get lumps , just pieces, easier to use
No tears at all GZ. It's hand powered and cost less than ten Euros. Which is about 8 Pounds. Good idea about freezing on trays.. I found out yesterday you can freeze potatoes. You just blanch them first.
ReplyDeleteIn years when our spuds wouldn't keep I froze a lot of mashed spuds- for putting on top of cottage and fish pies. That worked. never tried freezing chopped onions.
DeleteGreat mashed potatoes tip Tigger's Mum. We have frozen chopped onionsin plastic carrier bags. The onion slicer does a full onion at a time. Which fills a freezer bag and feeds four people.
DeleteI've never thought to freeze onions before. Ready chppped, they would be convenient to use when cooking.
ReplyDeleteWe do it more for vegetables growing space Jules. We also try to keep the chest freezers full with freshly picked and frozen vegetables on the same day. It is very convenient like Linda says above. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteYou must have a bloody big freezer Dave! I imagine it's as big as a garden shed. Do you need to defrost the onions before cooking with them?
ReplyDeleteWe have 3 chest freezers and a big fridge freezer and a couple of fridges YP. You just cook the onions from frozen. It's the peas next!
ReplyDeleteMum always made chains of onions, I remember seeing them in dad's garden shed, they lasted for months.
ReplyDeleteHi Marlene. My dad could string onions. I have read tales of the French Johnny onion sellers coming over to Wales on the ferries and riding around on bicycles selling onions. We grow onions winter and summer.
ReplyDeleteWe absolutely freeze onions. And we freeze peppers. And courgettes, (shredded) to make bread.
ReplyDeleteCourgette bread sounds good Debby. Thanks.
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