green onions

[laden]

I like to cook with green onions and would like to get others opinions about how much green to use.

When a recipe calls for chopped green onions I usually use about 3 inches of the green part. What do you guys do?

[emilycat]

laden,
I try to use as much of the green as I can, up until the onion starts to get wilty-looking. I feel like it's such a waste of a great vegetable if I don't use almost all of it!
Em

[Marcie]

I agree with emilycat, I use all but any wilted brown ends. I usually use kitchen shears and snip them until I don't have enough to hold onto any more.

[Ohioan]

For me, it kind of depends on the recipe, since the green and white parts have slightly different tastes and very different texture. If I want something closer to oniony taste (like shallots), I use more white than green, but if I want a sharper or "greener" taste (more chivey?), I use more green.

And if any of my students ever invented words like this, or wrote such circular sentences, I'd take points off! http://www.cookinglight.com/bbs/rolleyes.gif But I trust foodies to understand what I mean. http://www.cookinglight.com/bbs/biggrin.gif

Cheers, Phoebe

[Grace]

Oh gosh, Phoebe - I already worry about my grammar and sentence structure when I am posting!! I know when I write my "novellas" here, they are AWFUL in terms of fine writing! But I justify it to myself that I'm not trying to write well, but to write as I speak, like we're all sitting around that table we keep talking about, just chatting away over some good Seattles Best Coffee (had to get that plug in!). Anyway, I apologize to you if my posts cause your "correction reflex" to kick into overdrive!! Hee hee!!! http://www.cookinglight.com/bbs/smile.gif

Grace

[Ohioan]

Oh, Grace, I didn't mean to make you or anyone else self-conscious! I love everyone's idiosyncratic style of writing, and I, too, like to think of us as just chatting away at that kitchen table. I was just making fun of myself! I do this all the time. Once, in a journal I was keeping while trying to figure out some complex things that were going on, I found myself writing, "A bombshell just went off in my head. This may be a little skewed, but I think it'll help pull everything else together." And right after that, in parentheses, I wrote, "Oh, good metaphor: a skewed bombshell that pulls things together. Do you have any more lucid prose for us tonight?" Being an English teacher isn't a profession; it's a disease. http://www.cookinglight.com/bbs/biggrin.gif

But we're off the subject of green onions, aren't we? Sorry, everyone. http://www.cookinglight.com/bbs/redface.gif

Abashedly, Phoebe