Spring Onion tops - do you use them and what for?

newleaf

I use it all too. My mum's from Lancashire and she calls them 'Scallies'.

Churchmouse

Pink-winged wrote:

We eat all of the spring onion in salad.....I thought everyone did. In Northern Ireland we call them scallions.

Pink

Thank goodness for your post Pink!! I was beginning to think I was a freak from a long line of freaks!!!:rotfl: :rotfl: Eat it all in salad! Well obviously trim any manky bits off, but if you cut away all the green what's left??

meadowcat

Pink-winged wrote:

We eat all of the spring onion in salad.....I thought everyone did. In Northern Ireland we call them scallions.

Pink

.... And we make delicious champ with them. Warm a little milk with the chopped scallions and add it to your mashed potatoes with some butter.

Gingham_Ribbon

The green bit is the best bit. Like Pink, I didn't realise people threw them away. I put them in salads, or stir fries, or chopped up small in scrambled egg.

Greycrow

Eat them, they're lovely especially in a salad.
Never realised that some people dicarded them.

starlite_2

We use them in salads too!
Rather than start another thread, do you know if beetroot leaves are edible, and if so what to do with them? thanks.

kiwichick

Sunshine78 wrote:

I use the white part for salad and keep the leafy part for chopping up like chives and putting in with whatever really.... I have heard that in other countries they do the opposite to what a lot of us do, and the eat the leafy part and throw away the other bit! ..don't know if this is true though!!

Not quite the same thing but my old neighbour and I used to share bunches of radishes. She used the leaves and I used the bulbs.