Time to clean the veggie basket. At the bottom were two relatively long-forgotten onions wrapped in plastic wrap. One had little tiny sprouts and this one had some serious growth and both actually looked kind of pretty. Taken with my macro, three bracketed shots combined just to increase detail (used the 'natural' setting, then tweaked in LR). I used a white leather chair as the background and natural lighting. I'm quite intrigued with this onion -- I think you'll see it again this week.
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Finally -- a food shot I really am excited about! I've already done a little playing around with processing and may end up using this all week. It's not exactly edible food, but I thought it could count as a real contribution to our food theme this month, just under the wire!!
Wow, this looks so great against the stark white background. I didn't realise that a red onion could look so artistic. I love the green sprouts out the top, and the rings in the onion. Fav
Who would have thought an onion could look so beautiful? Fabulous against the white background! Such wonderful colours and detail! What a great find Taffy! I think I will have a rummage in the veggie drawer! Looking forward to seeing what else you will do with this little beauty! So funny - a sprouting onion - beautiful! Fav!
My reaction is to take it to my vege garden,separate the three individual onions and plant. You would be rewarded with some nice red onions and the green shoots are super chopped on a salad.But I digress Taffy, great capture of the red onion :)
What a great find and excellent processing. I must check out my veggie rack, I am sure there must be something interesting lurking in there. Got to be a fav for creativity.
@redy4et That's so odd!! I notice you keep getting 'kicked off' my list. Thanks for staying with it! Yummy idea of the soup, but these are looking pretty sad as onions go!
This turned out amazing!! I was taking care of my brother's cat while he is away, and because of your photo I did not discard his sprouting red onions and yams in his pantry!! ;-)) FAV!
Great shot, Taffy of such a cool looking onion and all the growth. I have never had an onion last to look like this. They usually go bad and get tossed out long before this happens. How long was this in your refrigerator. From what it looks like you keep yours in a basket so outside of your refrigerator. FAV
@darsphotos Thanks Darlene! Actually, Jim is sort of in charge of what goes where, and according to Jim -- my hero of cooking things -- onions should not go in the refrigerator, but just stay at room temperature, wrapped in plastic wrap once sliced/started. From there, I've noticed that if someone does not eat the onion and someone else does not throw the onion away, said onion grows sprouts! But only the red onions turn into beautiful models!
@taffy I will have to change how we keep our onions and try outside our refrigerator. My favorite are the red onions. Was this onion still good to use or not? Too funny and what we learn on here. Looks like you could almost plant this one and it would grow for you. Not an expert on onions though. Makes a great photo.
@darsphotos Definitely it was NOT edible!!! It actually had some mold on it. When I was done photographing after the slicing photo, it really was time to get rid of it! Probably should have been tossed about a week earlier but, well...you know how you get busy and things like throwing away an onion take too much time?? :-)
@taffy You make me laugh. I have never seen one grow so much and on Facebook there is one share going around to put the bottom of celery in water with most of the top cut off and the center will grow edible celery. My cousin tried it and that works. I figured this one was no good but thought I would ask. Yuk on the mold but we have stuff that gets by us too and I do a refrigerator cleaning out.
Finally -- a food shot I really am excited about! I've already done a little playing around with processing and may end up using this all week. It's not exactly edible food, but I thought it could count as a real contribution to our food theme this month, just under the wire!!
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Great use of out of date food!
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