Onion Rings!

[theyellowhobbit]

Ever since I stopped eating in non-kosher restaurants 4 1/2 years ago, I have not found any good onion rings. They were one of my favorite foods. They are incredibly unhealthy, but they are so good when done right. The best ones were either the bloomin' onion at Outback Steakhouse, or the strips of onion rings that they used to have at the Cheesecake Factory, though they took those off the menu and I don't know why.

It isn't that there's anything inherently unkosher about onion rings. There's not. It's just that there aren't that many kosher restaurants, and the ones that exist either don't serve onion rings, or don't care enough to make their own. They buy the packaged processed ones which have diced onions in them, which are, in my opinion, quite inferior to what I would call "real" onion rings.

This came up in conversation a month ago or so. I was talking about how when I started keeping kosher I didn't have much trouble giving up pork or shellfish, since I rarely had pork (we never kept it in the house, and I think I have had bacon less than 5 times in my entire life) and I didn't eat fish, shell or not. Thus, the things I missed were things that could be made kosherly, and shouldn't taste any worse when kosher, but were made badly. The other one I can think of off-hand is marshmallows. There is nothing in fish gelatin which should make it that different from real gelatin, but the people who make kosher marshmallows probably have never had a real marshmallow.

Then I came home today, and adlight was having MF over for lunch, and they were making mozzarella sticks and onion rings! I was really excited. And there were enough of both for me to be able to have that as my lunch as well.

So thus, this was the first time I've had good onion rings in almost 5 years. I quietly said a Shehekhianu (since I felt rather silly about it) and ate the onion rings. And I was very happy, and still am very happy.

The only problem is that they looked relatively easy to make. This would be a bad addiction to start up again.

Comments

[taylweaver.livejournal.com]

I don't know if it is the same thing, but Dougies has a Blooming Onion on their menu. You'd have to be in the NY area for that... but I do enjoy eating it.

[margavriel.livejournal.com]

Wikipedia says that a "blooming onion" is this. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blooming_onion) ()

[masteraleph.livejournal.com]

It is, which isn't really far off from onion rings. It's really a shape thing: onion rings are battered and fried vidalia onion circles (you could potentially using something else, but I think it's usually vidalia), while a blooming onion is a battered and fried vadalia onion in a, well, bloom shape.

[sen-ichi-rei.livejournal.com]

They both fall into the category of fried battered onion thingies that are made of awesome.

[trempnvt.livejournal.com]

I was going to say this.

[trempnvt.livejournal.com]

Next time you're in Israel, they have onion rings at quite a few places here. If only I could remember any offhand...