Green onions

Here's a really cool idea for always having fresh green onions! Linda sent this my way for the blog. If you try it, let us know how it goes!

This is it guys — place a bunch of scallions with their roots in a glass full of water, then place in a sunny window. Cut off what you need to use in your cooking and the onions will literally regrow themselves almost overnight. No joke.

Here's a shot of some of the green onions with 2 that I chopped down to the roots. See the two nubs off to the side there in the left shot:

This is what they looked like not even 2 days (left) and 4 days (right) later as they literally regrew themselves:

And not even a week later, this is what we have; you can barely tell the difference between the ones I originally cut and the ones I let be (which have also doubled in size):

See how much the roots have extended as well...

These were store-bought organic scallions, guys. Crazy! From what I understand, we'll be able to continue to chop off the parts of onion we want to use and they will just continue to regrow and regrow. You can also plant them in soil and achieve the same effect — something Mary and I will most likely do once the roots gain a little more traction.

Here are the before and afters again for good measure: