I love onions! One of my favorite onion "dishes" is grilled vidalia onions, served with some grilled steak or chicken. Our garden onions usually keep well, stored in a dark, cool, dry location (if possible). However, sometimes they start to go bad and then I have to be creative with using them.

One thing I love to do with fresh onions (and garlic!) is to use them when I cook ahead. We like lots of chopped onion and minced garlic fried with our ground beef, and when I fry 10+ pounds of burger meat, it uses quite a few! If I have garlic or onions that are starting to wilt or spoil, I fry some meat and then put it in the freezer.

I've found that normally freezing things like green peppers, chopped onions, or garlic will leave a strong smell in your freezer and consequently in the other foods you have frozen. (Most people don't really like green pepper-flavored broccoli. ;D) However, when I use those same things to season meat as it is cooking, I can freeze it without "flavoring" my entire freezer. ;)

I'm going to take a break over the weekend from my "Fresh From The Garden" posts, but we'll continue next week with a week's worth of apple recipes!