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Post by daylilydude on Mar 23, 2019 5:22:55 GMT -5
Let's just say that you were having a big ole juicy burger and you sliced up your mater, onions and lettuce, but you didn't use all of them, how do you keep/store them for the next time?
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Post by daylilydude on Mar 23, 2019 5:24:13 GMT -5
My wife and I will just make a small salad the next day with our left-overs...
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Post by ladymarmalade on Mar 23, 2019 8:02:15 GMT -5
I guess I'd put them in individual little containers or zipper bags and put in the fridge.
But reality is that once tomatoes go in the fridge, I don't like them, so they'd either get tossed in a pot of soup or down the garbage disposal. Lettuce we'd just use for another sandwich or something, and I wouldn't have sliced onion for burgers as I can't eat raw onion, though that would be the item most likely to be pulled out of the fridge, chopped up and added to whatever I was cooking the next day.
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Post by brownrexx on Mar 23, 2019 8:48:47 GMT -5
In the summer when I have plenty of them, tomatoes are single-use and the rest gets composted. As for onions I have a plastic screw-top thing in the shape of an onion. I put onion halves in there and it keeps them fresh for a few days and there is no smell in the refrigerator. They make a similar one for tomatoes but I never bought one of those so I don't know how good it works.
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Post by octave1 on Mar 23, 2019 9:21:22 GMT -5
Make a salad right away and eat it promptly. I can't stand refrigerator tomatoes.
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Post by pepperhead212 on Mar 23, 2019 9:59:14 GMT -5
Make some salsa.
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Post by paulf on Mar 23, 2019 10:19:43 GMT -5
Eat the tomato during the meal, don't worry about onion since there are none at our house and put the lettuce in a baggie for later use.
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Post by september on Mar 23, 2019 10:34:09 GMT -5
Throw 'em all together in a tupperware container and use at the next meal as a salad, or sandwich fixings.
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Post by Laura_in_FL on Mar 23, 2019 10:58:04 GMT -5
What LadyM said. But when I do have leftover raw onion - say from a recipe that calls for half an onion - I keep it in an airtight container in the fridge; it keeps for at least a few days until I can use it in another recipe. Since the container is airtight, it doesn't smell up the fridge. brownrexx,I always wondered if those onion keepers actually work. Mom used to wrap onion halves in plastic wrap, which would allow them to hold in the fridge for at least a few days but did let the smell leak out.
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Post by hairymooseknuckles on Mar 23, 2019 23:42:55 GMT -5
Just put meat and cheese on your burger. No vegetation needs to be cut up or wasted. Laughing!!!!
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Post by mgulfcoastguy on Mar 24, 2019 0:12:10 GMT -5
Soup, omelette, or garbage. My sister feeds leftovers to her chickens.
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Post by brownrexx on Mar 24, 2019 7:35:26 GMT -5
My chickens love tomatoes. They eat the seeds first and then the rest but you can't give them onions unless you want onion tasting eggs. The only things that I have found that they don't like is celery or lettuce.
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Post by Laura_in_FL on Mar 24, 2019 8:54:20 GMT -5
You can really taste onion in your eggs if you feed onions to your chickens? Interesting! What about garlic? Obviously onion or garlic flavored eggs would be bad for baking cookies and cakes, but they could be handy for omelettes since they are pre-seasoned.
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Post by brownrexx on Mar 24, 2019 9:31:21 GMT -5
You can really taste onion in your eggs if you feed onions to your chickens? Interesting! I have never tried it but it is common advice from other chicken owners so I just assume it to be true. I knew a dairy farmer who said that he had to constantly fight to keep wild onions out of his pasture because they could taint the flavor of his cow's milk. Good thing that they don't eat asparagus I guess!
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Post by Laura_in_FL on Mar 25, 2019 9:26:45 GMT -5
I had heard that onions alter the taste of cows' milk. It wasn't that surprising, since I had already heard from nursing moms that there were some foods (onions and garlic being most commonly mentioned) that the moms couldn't eat or had to eat in very small quantities. When they ate too much of those foods, their babies seemed to dislike the taste of their milk and/or got upset tummies. Plus of course nursing moms can't take any medication without checking with the doctor because many medications pass into their milk and can harm their babies.
But it just never occurred to me that onion flavor would pass into eggs in sufficient quantity to be noticeable.
Then again, I guess it should have occurred to me, since I have watched a bunch of "foodie" documentary-type shows, and from them I learned that high-end beef producers carefully control the diet of their animals to control the flavor of the meat.
So that old saying, "you are what you eat," is true on many levels.
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