Tuesday, April 23, 2013

For the love of the Vidalia

So some things in life come around once in a lifetime ... true love, birth of your first child, a trip to the Swiss Alps, a Super Bowl ticket, Georgia winning the SEC.  Well okay, some things we are blessed to experience more than once in a lifetime.  Some once a year in the spring and yes, friends, it's that time again!   What we've all been waiting for ...(cue the drum roll please)  the arrival of the first crops of the Vidalia Onion straight from the fields of Toombs County, Georgia!  I, for one, am extremely excited when I hear that those big beautiful onions have arrived at J&J Foods!  Woohoo!  Over the next couple of weeks,  I'll be posting some great recipes using those beauties!  After all, they are the state vegetable of Georgia.  So let's have some Southern pride and eat a Vidalia today!  They won't last long...

Vidalia Onion Casserole

Ingredients:
5 medium Vidalia onions, sliced
1 stick butter
1 stack of Ritz Crackers, crumbled
Grated Parmesan Cheese

Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
2. Melt butter and sauté onions until limp, not brown.
3. Place half of onions in a 9x13 casserole dish; sprinkle generously with Parmesan cheese. Top with ½ of Ritz crackers.
4. Repeat layers.
5. Bake at until brown about 20 minutes.

Serves 6-8.  Enjoy! 

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