Onions. Use EVERYTHING you pay for.

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One of my personal pet peeves when I watch food videos, or even the Food Network when we had normal TV, is the waste.  Before you start composing your essay to me about the fact that they are making a video and they are under the gun because of time constraints and the cost of making said videos and TV, hear what I have to say.  Please.

I am guilty of it too.  See that photo above?  This is the way I have always cut up my onions.  First, slice off each end.  Second, cut the thing in half.  This way half of my chopping is already done for me.

But the ends always ended up chucked into the garbage disposal.  In my defense, in case you are yelling at your phone right now, telling me off for not discovering this waste in my life until this late date, I’ve been conditioned for it.  Seriously.

Go watch a Giada at Home video, or an old episode of Rachel Ray, or a Tasty video, or….. You get the drift.  They all do it.  I mean, how hard is it to reach for a spatula instead of a whisk.  Stop leaving all of that goodness in the bowl people, I need ALL of the brownie batter in the pan!

And I did it too.  Until now.  Take those ends and peel back the outer skin and cut it all off around the root stem. 

Like so.  Now you have almost nothing left but the outer papery shell of the onion.  If you want to take another giant leap into using every last morsel, get yourself a good freezer bag and plop those papery leftover bits into it and stick it in your freezer.  Do this with all of your non-edible bits – the ends of carrots, celery, any vegetable really, and you have the makings of a stock when you’ve filled up the bag.

Dice up those extra bits and you have a few tablespoons of onion that would have ended up at the water company.  Or your septic tank.  Or the compost pile.  You get the point.  😉

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