re: Cooking for people who hate onions

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omit the onions and celery.

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Blasphemy

I have zero tolerance for adults who are picky eaters

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I hate raw onions but am fine with them cooked down for anything more than a minute or two

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Same.

When I was a kid I would bitch about it when I saw my grandpa cutting up onions for a dish. He basically told me to deal with it as that’s how it’s done. He was right and I always ate whatever. As an adult you realize onions are cooked down in almost everything with any kind of sauce.

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I hate raw onions but am fine with them cooked down

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Yep.

But I can empathize with people that don't even like them cooked because I can't stand celery, raw or cooked. It's all I taste when something has celery in it.

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Leeks are similar yet superior to onions in every conceivable way,

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The entire history of cooking disagrees with you. If leeks were superior, then cook books would be written with leeks in lieu of onions and celery.

Well, I'm in Alabama where traditional Cajun food isn't that ubiquitous, so I don't eat it very often. But I'll eat things with celery in it, but when I cook something that calls for celery, I either scale it way back or omit it.

Mushrooms can be a good substitute for onions.

I am not a huge raw onion fan, but i don't really know how anyone can taste them in a gumbo or red beans or any things thats cooked or stewed down or whatever.

I find most instanced were you really can taste them you can just do without.

I find Garlic usually imparts a Garlic taste, no matter what,I but i don't taste the onions in a lot of things after a while,I and don't really even see them in gumbo.

Flavor wise, I feel like you could sneak in onion powder in some dishes, maybe add a little water to make up for the lost moisture.

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