Blooming onions at home

If you go to a restaurant and order a blooming onion, you’ll be brought something along these lines:

blooming onion and dip pictures

Anyone else drooling right about now? I know I am, geesh.

Around here, though, this is how it goes:

Not nearly as pretty and definitely not as big. Seriously, where do they get those gigantic onions? ;)

But when you find onions for $.59 for 3 pounds and haven’t had a blooming onion in years, you take what you can get. And in this case, it meant a blooming onion for each person all to their own.

Prep/cut onions, soak in milk for 15+ minutes, coat in flour and whatever seasonings you prefer (salt and pepper are sufficient), and deep fry until golden. In my case, I put each one on some coffee filters when they were done to help soak up that glistening grease you see. Devour while warm; they’re not that great room temperature, cold, or reheated, bleh.

Amazing deals make me squeal

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No, I’m not going to show you weekly coupons or how I get $800 worth of food for $5 because I’m just that awesome. I *do* get excited over things like this, though:

That’s a $45 piece of meat….for $18…..except I shopped on a day where it was 10% off, so I actually got that for $16.30. At less than $1.99 a pound, that’s a whole sirloin tip for less per pound than I pay for ground beef.

And I just so happened to have been planning a large house warming party for dozens of people, so this couldn’t have showed up at a better time. I turned it into some delicious kabobs that I’ll show you guys more pictures of later.