Experience just how delicious summer can be with Rebecca Lang’s recipe for salmon topped with fresh mango and Vidalia onions. This flavorful
dish can be served hot or made ahead and chilled for those on the go. Touches of mint and ginger will have taste
buds soaring!
Even though Vidalia onions are tearless, missing the Flavors of Summer recipe contest will leave you feeling down. Don't miss your chance to enter by connecting on Twitter (@VidaliaOnions1) to peel back the exciting contest details. A winner from each of four categories will receive a cash prize of $1,000, and the grand prize is an outdoor entertaining package from Sears valued at $5,000.
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There are multiple Rebecca Langs on Twitter, but only one is Athens' own Rebecca Lang, mom of two as well as contributing editor for @southern_living, author of Around the Southern Table, food writer, cooking instructor and heir of cast iron skillets. Rebecca is also this year's Vidalia Onion spokesperson and you won't want to miss her! Follow her tweets at @rebeccalangcook. Full reads athttp://rebeccalangcooks.blogspot.com/.
Sweet Vidalia Onion season is finally here, and we’re ready to put our 10-lb. bag of these beautiful Georgia jewels to good use. We’ll be feasting on Vidalias in salads, tarts, sandwiches and more. Peel back the posts on our Pinterest board to see how we'll be feasting, then get your own bag and follow suit.
It's Vidalia Onion season and there are dishes aplenty to fix right now with this Georgia sweetie, like this summer delight! Get cooking in the kitchen and then take your best shot of your culinary creation. Focus on the onions and leave any onion packaging out of the shot. TheVidalia Onion Facebook Photo Contest deadline is July 5, and we'd hate for you to cry over missing it when the winners are announced. The winning entries will win an autographed CD from great Universal Music country artists and will be entered for a grand prize trip to Nashville!
Make mouths water and win Vidalia-sweet prizes when you submit a photo of a dish you’ve prepared using Vidalia onions to the Vidalia Onion Facebook Photo Contest page. Not only will the public get to see your Vidalia creation, but you could also be one of the 20 contestants to walk away with an autographed CD from Universal artists Vince Gill, Lee Ann Womack, Josh Turner and Easton Corbin. CD winners will automatically be entered to win the grand prize Vidalia Sweet Onions on the Set: Country Music Video Trip. Submit photos through 11 p.m. on Thursday, July 5, and make sure not to include the onion packaging in your photo. One entry per person.
Yeah, yeah, there are a lot of festivals going on this weekend. But how many of them celebrate our state vegetable? Only one! Head down to the 35th Annual Vidalia Onion Festival for some good, old-fashioned festival fun in Vidalia. The Food Network's been there - now it's your turn. Count more activities on the schedule than onions in a bushel bag including a carnival (buy unlimited-ride wristband), parade, Civil War re-enactment, Strait Jacket Monster Truck rides, car and motorcycle shows, kazoo band, bike stunts, chainsaw carvers, cornhole tournament and more. Off-site events include a "Movie Under the Stars," rodeo, a gospel sing, onion sales and Sweet Onion Antique Fair, Vidalia Onion Run, arts and craft show, recipe contest and still more. Sweet!
A dozen Georgia chefs will compete in the inaugural Golden Onion professional cooking competition preceding the 35th Annual Vidalia Onion Festival April 26-29 in Vidalia, Ga. Our personal favorites in the April 22 recipe creation competition are Marc Taft, owner and executive chef of Chicken and the Egg in Marietta, and Chef Richard Wiggins, executive chef at Spice Market in the W Atlanta - Midtown. All eyes and cleavers will be on the star of the cutting board - the Vidalia onion, the prominent ingredient in every recipe. Chefs Taft and Wiggins both sing praises about Georgia's mild and gentle state vegetable. Taft appreciates that their "flavor profile makes them easy to blend into dishes because they complement other ingredients so well; they're also fantastic alone." Wiggins enjoys "the sweetness and ability to manipulate the flavor" of Vidalia onions. First-place winner takes home the Golden Onion trophy for one year plus $500. Second-place winner receives $250, and third place receives $100. Competition takes place in the Vidalia Community Center and opens to the public at 12:30 p.m. Purchase $5 tickets in advance at the Vidalia Onion Museum; $10 at the door.
Sweet tears of joy! Vidalia onion season started yesterday. A-peeling facts: the real ones are grown only in Georgia, and the Vidalia Onion Committee provides plenty of recipes (Kevin Gillespie and Gerry Klaskala are on the Vidalia Onion Committee Chefs Advisory Board).
Make sure to "like" their Facebook page for all the latest Vidalia onion news. We've been collecting the tastiest recipes for this sweetie all week over on Pinterest, too, so take a peek for some onion inspiration!
