Cooking Tip: Cooking with Onions (Plus a special recipe)

When you are prepping onions are you crying like you're watching a Hallmark commercial? Tony Tantillo (The Fresh Grocer) swears by his method of storing onions in the refrigerator to keep you from crying over your onions. It's the unstable sulfur compounds that causes this reaction and colder onions seem to help with this problem. Most people will tell you not to store them in the refrigerator because of the moisture, but if you are like me (and, I love to cook with onions) then you won't encounter this problem.

As a special bonus with today's tip, here's a great salad so you can put this new onion chopping method to work!

Amy’s Summer Salad

2-4 tomatoes, sliced and then quartered

1 small onion sliced thin

1 package of mozzarella

1 avocado

1 jalapeno

Arrange sliced tomatoes, onion slices mozzarella and avocado on a medium sized platter.

Seed and dice your jalapeno and sprinkle evenly over top. Drizzle with lime vinaigrette below.

For Lime Vinaigrette:

3 to 4 tablespoons olive oil

2 tablespoons fresh lime juice

1 teaspoon Dijon mustard

1/2 teaspoon garlic powder

1/4 teaspoon ground cumin

1/4 teaspoon salt

1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper

Directions

In a jar with a lid, shake together remaining ingredients. Pour desired amount of vinaigrette over salad just before serving. There will be leftover dressing.