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bjbjqPqP This is one of my all-time favorite ingredients. I can't think of too many things
that I won't chop up some scallions and throw them in. Now, growing up, we called these
spring onions. I'm from the Appalachian Mountains. Not Appalachian, it's Appalachian. These were
spring onions. We called them green onions, and they were everywhere. I remember my mother
serving them with salads. But to use them, and these are kind of a cousin to onion and
leek and all the other onions, you see they've got this kind of funky bit on the outside
here? We're going to take that off. See? We're going to come down to where we've just got
his little hair, right there. So that comes off. Now, these have already been washed.
But if you haven't washed them, wash them well because they can be a little bit sandy,
just like a leek can. Not that bad, but you don't want the sand in your stuff. All right.
Now, the entire piece of this is edible. Okay? This, the white part, has more of an onion
flavor. This is something closer to a chive, although it's a little bit stronger, somewhere
between a shallot and a chive. I like to use the entire thing, and to do that, I cut his
little hair off. Going to get rid of that. Sometimes, even after you've taken that first
layer there it is you'll feel a membrane that's under that first layer that makes it kind
of slippery. So watch out for that. Now, these are kind of big. If these were really tiny,
really thin, I'd simply slice this way and use it like that. But this is going in a raw
salad, so I want small bits. So I'm going to cut him in half, line him up, and nice
tiny pieces. Now, a lot of people will only go up so far on the green part and quit, which I honestly don't
understand why because the green is delicious, and it's got a softer onion flavor. There
is no need to waste that much of what you just paid for. Now, these guys, these are
going in my scrap bin because we've got a cool trick to do with those in a minute. But
that's it. Clean him up, take his skin off, pop his head up. Great green onion. If you
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