I am crying, because my DH wouldn't help me!!!! It's all his fault! :D

[willkatdawson]

Do you share your hush puppy recipe? Is it puppy or puppie? Oh well....

 

[Boyd]

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Boyd, I'm sorry, guy, but for that, you deserve to be upchucked on next time.

By the way, get used to be thrown up upon.

****Disclaimer - Boyd was previously married before Kelly ****

Girly, I'm used to be upchucked on

I have more kiddos than anyone I know online or offline

The baby will bring my super-combined total of kids who've lived under my roof for at least a year to 10 kids

Cindi - I'd take the bucket hit and still be laughing and giggling.. it is sorta funny. Besides, in my wife's 5th month, all sorts of funny stuff is happening to her

 

[PaulaJoAnne]

Ahhh, I'm sorry!
Want a couple of tricks?
Next time you are doing an onion, cut it in half, peel quickly and then lay the halves down on their cut sides.
Leave the blossom end intact!!!
Using a sharp knife, make cuts from top to bottom, letting the blossom end to hold the slices together.
Then cut across the width.
It goes very fast, and the fumes generally do not make it to your eyes.

The other thing I do, is I have a down vent on my stove top. I slice my onions next to that vent.

And of course, you can partially freeze them too, but I never remember to that in time, and also will tend to leave them to freeze all the way

 

[fordmommy]

I am super sencitive to onions so I bought this. It's awesome. And works awesome for tomatoes for salsa too. I don't know how I lived without it.

http://www.asseenontvguys.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=201

 

[cat]

I would cry too if I had to eat puppies!

I know times are hard but surely it hasn't come to this?

(in Ireland hush puppies are Bassett Hounds.)

 

[Cindiloohoo]

cat- that's funny!

willkatdawson- pm'ing it to ya!

 

[Chickie'sMoma]

there was a show that used to debunk food myths and facts (sort of like Mythbusters) they said the best method was to either freeze the onion for a few minutes or put it in ice cold water to keep the smelly cells from breaking quickly and causing you to cry.

the only other method i know of that sort of worked was to NOT cut the end that had the roots attached to it.

 

[CityGirlintheCountry]

I put on my swimming goggles and whack away. Looks a little goofy, but eh...

You should either eat all the hushpuppies your own self OR send a care package to those BYCers that love you and would never laugh. I personally really appreciate a good hushpuppy and would lay tribute at the feet of anyone who went to the effort to make them for me. I make do with those from Captain D's. Or just make cornbread and pretend. Sigh.

 

[Cindiloohoo]

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I have a great recipe if ya want it

I can't cook them for you but I can tell you how. My mom's recipe would put Captain D's fake puppy nugget wannabe's to shame.

 

[Tala]

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We used to have one of those. It was a nightmare to clean, even with a brush I'd still find bits of onion dried/glued to it next time I tried to use it.

I chunked it last time we moved.


I get horribly messed up over the onions. I have to cut a lot of them at work. It sucks.
What sucks more is when one of the teenage punks on evening shift comes in and picks on me. I'm of the STRONG opinion that if you laugh at me while I'm doing a job then YOU can do the job for me!!!! You laugh at me then you can cut your own dang onions!

Also, I never cry for less than 2 buckets of onions. If I'm gonna get all messed up I'm gonna prep enough to last through tomorrow too (so I only have to do it once)
If the manager says to prep one - I just don't do it. Funny thing is, they seem to understand. (So why bother putting 1 down on the "to prep" list?)