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Ever buy a bunch of herbs for a recipe, only to use a scant stem and find the rest wilted with dehydration a week later? This has admittedly been a long-standing problem in my kitchen, and I've been determined to cultivate a solution for it. This week I'm addressing an aromatic I have a chronic problem forgetting about: scallions.


When they're fresh, green onions have a biting smell and are resilient to the touch, but days later, the exact same stalks will take on a muted brownish hue, made slimy thanks to dehydration, and hunched over in sadness and neglect.

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Since they age quickly, the key is to make sure you use them up before they get to such a sorry state! Thankfully, there are plenty of ways to do that; scallions have a mild pungency that's versatile enough to go into just about every savory dish. A few examples:

1. Slice green onions as thinly as possible, then toss a handful into a garden salad.
2. Make a four-ingredient ginger scallion sauce to drizzle on eggs, chicken, and fish.
   
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3. Make Chinese scallion pancakes for a hungry crowd.
4. Sub the whites in place of regular onions in tomato salsa, guacamole or any other Mexican favorite.
5. Use them to add a bit of edge to a zippy macaroni salad.
6. Save them for later: wash, dry, and chop green onion bits, then seal them tightly in a clean glass jar, place them in the freezer, and use them for weeks to come.

What do you do when life hands you too many green onions?

Source: Quinn.Anya

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