The Idea
My Interpretation
This might have to be the shortest blog post ever. There's not much I can say about plopping some onions into a glass of water. Though, I'm told I can turn a 2 minute story into 20. Let's test the theory.
First of all, I bought some green onions as an ingredient for a recipe very similar to this one:
http://www.myrecipes.com/recipe/loaded-potato-soup-10000001152941/
Loaded Potato Soup. Yum! Is anyone else hungry? The recipe I use is in a slow-cooker cookbook, but this one is pretty darn close. I only used half of the onions, so I cut up the other half of them and did this:
lunchinabox.net
Brilliant, I tell you! Chives frozen in a water bottle ready to sprinkle.
After I cut off all the green stuff, I plopped the white ends into a glass of water and sat them in the dining room window. Honestly, I forgot about them for a few days. When I remembered to go check on them, they already had a couple inches of new green stalk growing. They grow fast!! Every few days I changed the water in the glass, and they were ready to cut again in less than 3 weeks. The really funky part is that the roots keep on growing as well and end up looking like spaghetti in the bottom of the glass.
The blog post says you can pretty much just keep this process going indefinitely. I found that the second round of window growing didn't go quite as well. The onions grew much slower and some of them barely grew at all. There were only a couple of stalks that grew as quickly as the first round. I wondered if it was maybe because they're not getting any nutrients from soil??? I got tired of messing with it and decided that green onions weren't all that expensive and I don't use them very often. I trashed the second round and moved on. The first round was totally worth it, though!
The last issue I had was deciding what to do with the glass they grew in for 6 weeks. It was one in a set of six. In order to explain why this poses an issue, I have to tell you that I can't drink any beverage out of a glass that has recently had milk in it. Even if it's been through the pipin' hot dishwasher, I can still smell the milk. Is that weird??? Regardless, I couldn't imagine trying to drink my water or iced tea out of a glass that housed green onions for 6 weeks. My husband also said that every time he used one of the glasses, he would wonder if it was the onion-y one and get a little grossed out. Ultimately, we decided to toss it before it became a problem. :) The moral of the story: choose your onion glass wisely.
