Your Favorite Use for Onion Bread?

[pfc]

I just finished my first batch of Onion Bread and YUM!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WOW!
I was thinking of ways to use it and thought I'd ask what others do...
Last night I put olive tapenade, lettuce and tomato on. It was soooooo good!!!
What's your favorite topping/filling?

[rawpriestess]

YYUUUUUMMMMMYYYY

Alissa's meatloaf made into a burger patty, with a big fat juicy slice of tomatoe, lettuce leaf, slice of sweet white onion, sprouts, and some bar-b-que sauce (raw of course)

Also, with pizza toppings, pizza sauce, gooey pizza cheese (my recipe) sun dried tomatoes, fresh basil, sweet white onion, black greek olives, mushrooms, pecan sausage and pineapple

Those are my favorites (so far)

but we can always make more!!!!

[levamssg]

On my first batch of onion bread .. I spread on fresh made almond butter and mashed strawberries ... my version of PB&J ... delicious.

I now have a batch dehydrating made with 1/2 onions and 1/2 carrot/celery/apple pulp. Smells great. Going to use it for veggie burgers w/ catsup (raw), chopped onion, cuke pickles (marinating now). Can't wait!

[love6kids]

I know this is a bit of a thread hijack, but how do you grind the flax seeds for this recipe?
Thanks! Alicia

[Texicalian]

Avocado, lettuce, tomato and olives - very simple and quite yummy.

Alicia - I use a coffee grinder; love it and couldn't live without it. You can often pick them up at thrift shops and second hand stores.

[Rawkinlocs]

I know this is a bit of a thread hijack, but how do you grind the flax seeds for this recipe?
Thanks! Alicia

If you have a good blender like a Vita-mix or L'equip or K-Tec, those will do it. But if not, a coffee grinder is what most of us use! You can get them pretty cheap from stores like Target, Walmart, etc. but there are also more expensive models that probably grind better (like grinding cacao beans!)

[love6kids]

Avocado, lettuce, tomato and olives - very simple and quite yummy.

Alicia - I use a coffee grinder; love it and couldn't live without it. You can often pick them up at thrift shops and second hand stores.

Good idea!
Thanks!

[love6kids]

If you have a good blender like a Vita-mix or L'equip or K-Tec, those will do it. But if not, a coffee grinder is what most of us use! You can get them pretty cheap from stores like Target, Walmart, etc. but there are also more expensive models that probably grind better (like grinding cacao beans!)

I do! (Waving hand excitedly) I have a Vitamix with a dry container for grinding grain! YAY!!

Thanks guys....you're awesome!
Alicia :D

[pfc]

Tonight I made a sundried tomato spread by putting a bunch in my vita mix with some water, a little olive oil and a just a few 'Greek Olives' (Very salty!) for flavor. Blended it all up and smeared it on! YUM!!!
(Took the rest and mixed it with an onion, a cup of sunflower seed and a cup of flax (ground in the vitamix dry container!) and smeared it on teflex. We'll see how these turn out!
I'm so pleased because I've never really been a food prep kind of person, but I'm really enjoying myself right now!

[RawTruth]

I know someone mentioned the first one, but it's such a staple, I had to mention it again:

* Avocado, tomato, sprouts and/or lettuce, or ooh oooh ooh my favorite right now: basil leaves -- with the bread first smeared with some arugula mayo or some pesto.

* Also, that eggplant bacon that we discussed a few months ago -- using it to make a "bacon", lettuce, tomato sandwich.

* Zing salad (fermented raw from Rejuvenate Foods) topped with some spicy sprouts.

* Leftover marinara sauce spread on the onion bread then popped in the dehydrator for 10 minutes to warm up.

Now I have to make some onion bread tonight. See what you've done!

[pfc]

Is this the Eggplant Bacon recipe you're using?
I came across a post about liquid smoke and making bacon the other day, but couldn't find it using the search, only came up with this one...

1 large eggplant, thinly sliced lengthwise
3/4 c. oil * I only used 1/4 cup oil
1 tsp. cayenne
2 Tbl. honey
4 Tbl. Ume Plum Vinegar

Marinate for 2 hours. Place on teflex sheets and dehydrate for 9 hours. Turn bacon over and dehydrate another 9 hours. (didn't take me that long)

Thanks RawTruth!

[PixieGreen]

About the eggplant bacon...If your tongue is sensitive to salt as mine is cut the plum vinegar in half. I also cut the oil, 3/4c is so much it drowned my first batch. :)

Christa

[RawTruth]

Is this the Eggplant Bacon recipe you're using?Yes, it sure is.

My alterations: I don't use Ume plum vinegar because it's not raw; I used apple cider vinegar. I also reduced the oil after the first batch.

I've also made this just using other marinades -- whatever I was using to marinate "stir-fry" veggies ... and it's still great. When I made it, the eggplant never got stiff or crumbly; it was flexible and really chewy. It may be crunchy if it's dehydrated longer. Regardless, I enjoyed it greatly since it was simple, didn't require hauling out the food processor, and, of course ... tasty!

[zeeraw]

Hi,
Have noticed so many of you guys raving about this onion bread, and thought to myself that I've got to try this one out, so did a search and came up with an onion bread recipe that uses: sweet onions, sunflower seeds, flax seeds olive oil and nama shoyu - is this the recipe you guys are talking about?

Also have to ask a stupid question but what are sweet onions? :confused: When I buy onions I notice we have white onions, brown onions and red salad/Spanish onions - which of these are sweet or is it something totally different?

Thank you :)
Z

[rawpriestess]

Sweet onions, are like the Walla Walla sweets, they are so good, and they don't bite, you can eat them like an apple.

I live in WA state, so we are very Walla Walla Onion proud.

I am sure there are plenty of big white juicey sweet onions in other states. too.

But the Walla Walla are world famous.

[VeganVixen]

You might also try the vidalia onion , theyre availible in many states.

wev'e got the heinz 65 variety in Texas -but theyre VERY crossbred......

[zeeraw]

:confused: Walla Walla sweets????? :confused: Vidalia onions???? Never heard of either of these.

Sorry I should maybe clarify that I am an Australian so um maybe we don't get the same veges as you guys do, and sometimes we just name them differently. I know when we make salads over here there is a preference to use the red onions and I know a Thai chef who prefers red onions in his cooking so maybe I could try those while I'm searching for these other ones you guys speak of.

Thanks for responding so quickly
Z :)

[pfc]

Z -
I think 'sweet' onions are generally the white ones, but if you like the red ones and enjoy their flavor I sure using them for the onion bread will be just as enjoyable for you! I considered it too as I love them, but since I'm not much of a 'cook' (or 'uncook', as the case may be :D ) I figured I'd stick to the recipe the first time around.
Enjoy!!

[lallen13]

I made the onion bread with red onion because that is all I had at the time and they turned out wonderful.
Next batch I might try the white onions but the red was really good too.

[love6kids]

A funny thing happened when I made my first onion bread.......
I just got my Excalibur last week, and finally decided to christen it yesterday. I figured I would do all the "onion stuff" at the same time, so made Onion Bread, Marinated Onions, and the Carrot Pecan Burgers.
When I mixed up the Onion Bread, I put the sunflowers and flax seeds in the food processer together to grind them, and found that the flax seeds don't grind that way no matter how long I let it run. :o Then I came on line, and read that they need to be ground in a coffee grinder or vitamix first. I wasn't sure what to do, since I had all the ingredients chopped and ready, and no more flax seeds to experiment with, so I just mixed it all together, and let it sit for about an hour, hoping that it would look more like whatever it's supposed to look like. Funny thing is, that I don't *know* what it's supposed to look like! :confused:
I thought, what the heck, Let's give it a try, so spread it on 2 teflex sheets and put it in the dehydrator. 5 hours later, I turned it over, and since by that time, it was 11:00 pm, I left it drying all night. When I got up this morning, I checked it, and needless to say, it didn't look very good. :eek:
As I peeled it off the sheets, planning to just throw it away, I tasted a little piece, and guess what??? It tastes really good. WOW, I didn't do so bad after all!!!
I have a big order of flax seeds coming this week, so next time, I will grind them first, and see how it turns out.

Ha Ha! I feel like a first time cook again, even though I have been cooking for about 40 years!! :rolleyes:

[Doe]

Zeeraw, here is a link to a raw site in Australia: http://www.rawfood.com.au/ Under "contacts" is the e-mail for a chef there. He or she will surely know what sweet onions grow there. When you find out let us know. There must be others in Australia that would benefit from the knowledge.

Doe

[truthseeker]

What Onion Bread recipe are we talking about? I can't find one in Alissa's book.

Anyone got the recipe?

Thank you

[Rawkinlocs]

What Onion Bread recipe are we talking about? I can't find one in Alissa's book.

Anyone got the recipe?

Thank you

Here ya go!
http://www.rawfoodtalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1149&highlight=onion+bread+recipe

[truthseeker]

Rawkinlocs you ROCK! I can't tell you how many great recipes my kids have enjoyed thanks to your posts.

You inspire me :)

Thank You!

[Rawkinlocs]

Rawkinlocs you ROCK! I can't tell you how many great recipes my kids have enjoyed thanks to your posts.

You inspire me :)

Thank You!

Garsh...aww shucks :o **drops head and kicks foot back and forth bashfully**

Thanks Truthseeker :D

[zeeraw]

Zeeraw, here is a link to a raw site in Australia: http://www.rawfood.com.au/ Under "contacts" is the e-mail for a chef there. He or she will surely know what sweet onions grow there. When you find out let us know. There must be others in Australia that would benefit from the knowledge.

Doe

Funny thing, I tried this website ages ago but everytime I click on it to enter my computer comes up with 'error on page'. At the time I also had the guys email address so I emailed him about it and he told me my computer must be too old to access the site (my hard drive had only been replaced in the last 1-2 years so I wouldn't have considered that to be old). Needless to say I have given up on that website for a while.

There are a couple of other Australian websites so I'll see what I can find out.

[jennykiss75]

Help!!!
I made the onion bread last night, put in the dehydrator about 8pm and it still wasn't quite ready this morning so I left in all day. Tasted when I got home and it is really bitter...I was so looking forward to munching this bread it smelled so good all last night.

Jenny

[RawTruth]

Hmmmm ... the only thing I can think of is the onions weren't sweet onions. But, I know you talked about that earlier in this thread. Or ... maybe, for your taste, you should reduce the onions. That's what I did even though I love onions. Hopefully someone else has some ideas. Oh - did you use golden flax or the brown flax? And ... were the sunflower seeds absolutely fresh? They can taste a bit bitter sometimes.

[jennykiss75]

Hmmmm ... the only thing I can think of is the onions weren't sweet onions.
did you use golden flax or the brown flax? And ... were the sunflower seeds absolutely fresh? They can taste a bit bitter sometimes.

I used the med size white/yellow onions that have the brownish peel...that was all that was available organic. Yes, I did use the goldenflax and fresh sunflower seeds. I was worried that it was too long in the dehydrator and it started to sour. I think next time I will use less onions...I am starting to figure out how easy it is to just mix and match recipes and there really is no reason to be exactly precise.

Thanks!

[RawTruth]

I was worried that it was too long in the dehydrator and it started to sour.I think that's unlikely ... but, at this point I'd just try again.

[jaurequi]

I haven't tried this particular recipe, but, whenever I need sweet onions and they aren't available, I use regular brown or red onions but I rinse them first. This turns them into mild onions and makes them edible, straight. I've ruined an entire salad with bitingly pungent (non-sweetish) onions; so I make sure that I rinse and taste brown or red onions before eating them where they will be a significant ingredient.

Brown and white are the strongest; red are usually milder which is why they are great for salads and sandwiches and don't always call for rinsing but sometimes do.

For *especially* strong onions that are bitter, I rinse and squeeze under water -- works every time.

This recipe looks like it would be great using a combination of onions: I'd try it with shallots, green onions, leeks, regular and sweet onions. :)

[jennykiss75]

For *especially* strong onions that are bitter, I rinse and squeeze under water -- works every time.

THANKS!!! I will try that and see if that does the trick. I was so bummed because I can tell it was going to be yummy and the texture was perfect for sandwiches.

Jenny :)

[Green Guy]

Zeeraw, here is a link to a raw site in Australia:

Hi Doe

Sure you didn't realise, but that's the guy that was trying to patent raw foods in Australia! I saw this posted on one of the other forums, along with the link to his patent at the Australian patent office ( http://pericles.ipaustralia.gov.au/ols/searching/patsearch/search_section.jsp?sectionCode=DTL&keyNo=2004100620&type=I ) saying that he invented the idea of raw. Apparently he threatened to sue the main Vegetarian society down there for breach of patent if they taught about raw food... :( Not sure what's happened to his patent since though, but that's not the kind of guy I'd choose to give free publicity to.

A better place might be Hippocrates Australia ( http://www.hippocrates.com.au ). They've been teaching down there for nearly two decades. Also to my knowledge they haven't tried to sue anyone lately! ;)

Green Guy

[exurb]

jennykiss, those onions you used are "cooking onions". IMO they do not have a nice flavor in raw recipes. You could try red onion, or even leeks if you can't get the sweet onions like walla walla or vidalia. The sweet onions are seasonal onions as they don't keep as long as cooking onions do, so you could also check at different times for them. You could also use green onions in a pinch, but I get good results from red onions, and especially from leeks in my raw recipes.

jaureqai that's interesting about the rinsing, I've never tried that and will have after all my leeks are gone from the garden.

BTW, leeks are a great thing to grow for any gardeners, because they're cold tolerant. If you mulch them you can keep digging them up right into winter. I love leeks in raw recipes.

Back the the original question, my favorite topping is nut cheeses, especially from pine nuts.

[Dandelion Girl]

Raw Priestess - What is your recipe for the gooey pizza cheese?