Jac grilled pork chops and onions for dinner. She simply cut the onions in half before placing them under the grill next to large, juicy pork chops. She served the pork and onions with a simple salad of cos lettuce, green beans, mandarins and strawberries.
I love pork chops! I ate my chop with lashings of smoky barbecue sauce – but the surprise highlight of the meal was the onions. They were caramelised, sweet and tasty, and I couldn’t stop eating them. I asked Jac if there were any more left on the grill tray – and there were! She’d anticipated that I’d love the onions cooked this way so she grilled plenty!
The sweetest part of each onion was right at the centre. I savoured every bite. Well…I ate all the outer layers of each of my onion halves, saving the centres. Then I ate each centre slowly to savour their deliciousness. Mmm, it’s nice thinking about eating those sweet onion centres all over again. :)
Do you like cooked onions? What do you like to eat with them? I love a sausage sizzle with lots of barbecued onions with the sausage in a soft chewy hot dog bun, zig-zagged with tomato sauce and yellow mustard, or a generous smothering of barbecue sauce. But unless it’s a sausage sizzle at home where Jac always cooks up lots of onion, I tend to find sausage sizzle people are very stingy with the onion – either they’ve underestimated how much onion they’ll need so they severely ration it per serve, or they simply don’t think people like lots of onion. I also love roasted whole onions as part of a roast dinner – roast pork, chicken, lamb, it doesn’t matter. Gotta have onions in a roast dinner (as well as lots of other roast veges)!
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i looove goats’ cheese and caramelised onion with some toasted baguette, but not necessarily in a sandwich. :) in fact, in the UK kfc are doing that very wrap and it’s pretty yummy. :D
I love onions and steak :-) your photos are amazing with color and clarity, looks like you are digging the new camera
I love carmelized onions! Esp. like them with grilled sausage or roasted chicken. Sometimes I do a veggie grill-up with roasted red peppers, zucchini, onions, eggplant, and whatever else i can scare up. I skewer it all and douse with olive oil and balsamic vinegar, a lil salt and pepper…mmmmm.
I love my white/yellow onions only grilled or raw. I usually eat them with BBQed kabobs. I love my red onions only raw, especially in sandwiches!
I made chops last night. Dredged in seasoned flour, very hot pan, oil and butter. Thin so they cooked fast, Mashed and green beans. we end up eating them like ribs. Only if we’re alone! Blood orange sorbet later-the best! I think Jac is a salad master! Always using interesting combinations. I will eat grilled onions with anything but dessert.
My mom taught me something – there’s a special sort of sweet Japanese wine called mirin; she likes to make a dish where the onions are sliced up into ribbons, then cooked down in a mixture of mirin and soy sauce. Usually she’ll also put in VERY thinly sliced slices of fatty pork… I don’t know what cut, though. I think the name of the stew is called yakiniku, and I just LOVE the onions in those. But grilled onions come close ;)
I LOVE ONIONS!!! TFP, you must get jac to try my soy sauce version!! they are brilliant with pork chops!
oh sorry, got carried away in my excitement and clicked send before i finished :P re stingy onions at sausage sizzles, i totally agree with you on that – all the ones i attended in uni had a severely low supply of onions and whenever i asked for more they would look at me funny. Ah well! guess it also doesn’t help that onion tends to induce flatulence.. ;P
How do you cook the chops? it looks nicely done. High heat? low heat? grilled? cooking meduim? pan? grill?
I’m with you. Cooked onion, slowly fried until soft sweet and caramelised goes on a hot dog roll with almost any kind of sausage.
Then on roast nights we always have a whole onion cooked in the roast meat juices.
Raw onion on the other hand I hate.
I love your simple meals and I LOVE GRILLED ONIONS! I could eat a whole pot full of them. *nom*
Pretty salad. :-) Jac’s the only person who puts together salads I’d actually crave.
The grilled onion looks divine. Mostly I like them with a beef dish; fried hamburger “steak” or real steak. But I don’t eat much beef these days. However, I’ve found hormone- and steroid-free bison at a local grocer’s; nearly $7.00 per pound. I broiled bison patties last week for burgers with no ill effects. So I’ll probably buy some more soon, and will grill onions with. ;-)
At a hazardous waste treatment plant I used to work at, we had monthly BBQs and we always fried a few pounds of onions. They never lasted and usually half of our folks were grumbly about having no onions. They caramelized goodness is bringing on a drool attack. :p
Onions are fine – as long as they are extremely well cooked. If they’re anything under ‘cooked to buggery’ I tend to get indigestion. :-(
By the way, I’ve noticed the difference with your photos. I think your new camera likes food as much as you! ;-p
The pork chops look yummy! I love my onion raw or pickled, to go with my meats. It cuts the oiliness and gives another dimension to it.
jessi,
I’d definitely eat that wrap! Goats cheese is one of my discoveries for 2010. I’ve known about goats cheese, of course – but I didn’t really get to eat it much and appreciate it until this year. It would be wonderful with caramelised onion.
Thanks, Candy. Yep – I love onions with any meat – steak, pork chops, sausages, chicken, lamb chops, roast… you name it! I am absolutely loving the new camera. I wish I had time to just take photos all day!
Reenie Bug,
The veggie grill-up sounds fantastic! I love grilled vegies, especially eggplant and zucchini. Oh, and mushrooms with garlic butter! And haloumi cheese! I think a little birdie will be suggesting to Jac that we have barbecued vegie kebabs for dinner soon. ;)
Leslie,
Jac loves raw onions in sandwiches and salads. She loves onions in any form, raw, cooked, and especially pickled. I don’t mind raw onion every now and then, but if it’s not in a sandwich or salad I don’t miss it. :)
kathy,
Your chops sound lovely! If I’m eating dinner with Jac my table manners are, let’s say, relaxed. :) I’m not total cavewoman but I’ll pick the meat up from the plate and gnaw and really clean the bones. Hahaha, funny thing is, I think I’d like caramelised onion ice cream. With a side of bacon. Drizzled with maple syrup. A kind of desserty breakfast.
Wei-Wei,
Mmm, the onion, mirin, soy sauce and fatty pork dish sounds right up my alley. I must do some research on that, I think Jac would love that too. “You had me at fatty pork” :D
laundrydays,
I will, I will! :D So many good suggestions from you guys!
Let’s not focus on the flatulence aspect. ;P
Shane,
No idea, I just show up at the end and eat them. :D
I will check the details with Jac and post what she tells me.
Craig,
“a whole onion cooked in the roast meat juices” DROOL!
catty,
So could I! I’d enjoy sitting curled up on the couch with a bowl of grilled, sweet caramelised onions, eating as I watched a cooking/food TV show. Mmm.
Cindy,
We would love to try bison burgers if we had the chance! I don’t eat much red meat at all. Jac, however, loves all red meat. Usually when we dine out, she’ll order steak while I order seafood (or pork – if there’s pork belly on a menu, I can’t even think about ordering anything else!)
Jon,
If I were a boss of a company, I’d want to have monthly BBQs at work for the staff for sure. With vegetarian options, and nice salads including coleslaw, and lots of BBQ onions. :D
Sally,
Indigestion is yucky, but onion indigestion would be really yucky! D:
Thanks – I’ve been thrilled with the camera. And I hope the photos will get even better as I get more and more familiar with the camera.
J,
I prefer cooked to raw or pickled, but yes, gotta have onion with meats for sure.