You cook the onions slowly to caramelize their natural sugars, and the addition of brown sugar and balsamic vinegar helps the process along. Instead of throwing the onion skins out I popped them in a saucepan (one that is designated to art & craft tasks) with a couple of pieces of PFD (prepared for dyeing) fabric. I brought it to the boil, reduced the heat and let it gently simmer while I cooked the onions.
For the caramelized onions: I put olive oil into a heated fry pan, added 6 sliced onions, a splash of balsamic vinegar and slowly let the onions soften. Once the onions were soften I added the sugar and a hand full of cranberries, reduced the heat and let everything cook slowly until the onions were nicely caramelized; this took about an hour. The 6 large onions gave me a 250 ml jar of caramelized onions which I keep in the fridge and use over the next 1-2 weeks.
The Fabrics: the top piece of fabric I removed from the liquid after an hour of gentle boiling and rinsed it with hot water so it's lighter than the bottom piece which I left in the liquid for 3-4 hours. I've put together a Caramelized Onion & Fabric Dying Recipe Sheet that you can download, it's in PDF format.
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Glad to see you back and active. Really enjoy your posts and photos. Was that an X-E1 I saw in another blog?
ReplyDeleteHi Peter, Yes, pretty sure it was a X-E1. It's not mine but I liked the weight and look of it. I mostly use a Nikon d5000 (the macro (portrait) lens being my favourite) and I also have a Coolpix for fun everyday use.
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