No onion please!

Wow! America puts onions in everything! From our spices to our sauces.. onion is in everything.

I just noticed this while trying to create a dish for one of Paul's Indian coworkers who is visiting the states for 3 months. He is allergic to onions, so he usually just gets chicken and rice from what I've heard. He also prefers chicken over other meats. I decided to make something different than chicken and rice. If I didn't make something at home, we would take him to Cici's, but all pizza sauce has onions in it! I was going to make chicken pot pie, but that has onions. So... I remembered my mom's yummy lemon pepper Alfredo sauce that goes with chicken.

This was it, I thought! There is no onion in this! I decided on an Italian night. I bought ingredients for veggie pizzas, but after getting home with all the ingredients I read the back of the most important ingredient the dry ranch packet.. Dry ranch packets contain "dried onions!" Ahh! So I decided not to do that.

While searching the store, I was going to get the Alfredo sauce in the jar that my mom always gets and makes it SO good with the spices she adds. ALL of the Alfredo sauces had "onion" as an ingredient! I then realized... I would have to make the sauce from scratch. I found a recipe that was for Alfredo that didn't include onion! :) Today, I spent an hour preparing this Alfredo. I then was about to add "lemon pepper spice" to the Alfredo when I read the back.. "onion"! Again! Onion! Ah! So.. I had to make lemon pepper from scratch which isn't that hard. I squeezed a lemon into the Alfredo and put some black pepper into the Alfredo... I kept tasting it with 20 different spoons to get the right flavor. Finally, I was okay with it.. the Parmesan cheese was alittle clumpy, but it was edible.. VERY unhealthy (1 cup butter, 1 cup heavy whipping cream, 1 1/2 cup Parmesan cheese). Yeah, artery clogging!

So.. I did all this to prevent "onions" from being in any of the dishes!

At dinner, we explained to him how to put Alfredo pasta onto your plate.. the noodles first, then the chicken, then the sauces.. etc. (Our neighbors who are also Paul's coworkers were over as well). At this moment, the Indian coworker announces that he had chicken pasta at Ruby Tuesdays today and it was very good.

Ruby Tuesday's pasta is exactly what I made (I looked it up online).. who knows if it had onion in it?

Besides that, the meal was ok. I don't think I'll be making it from scratch again. I was just amazed at how much onion is in American food.