It was a long way to get there. Last year I was on a holiday in Calabria, Southern Italy, in the area of Tropea. These red sweet onions were sold everywhere. We even visited an onion farmer to see the work that was needed to grow these. I bought some onion condiments and a small bag of seeds.
The description on the package said to plant the seeds in October to harvest the next year in May. I had some empty planters outside, the tomato season was over, I put out some seeds. The planters were "protected" from the winter weather and in early March green shoots came up.
But in April snails came out like the plague. They ate everything in everyones gardens. The splurched on my onions. No survivors!
In the middle of May I decided to put seeds in two small pots. The seedlings later went in 2 larger ones. But only one of these pots was a success. Now I have the first homegrown Tropea onions.
I finely sliced it and mixed it with sour cream and seasoning and put that mix in a baked sweet potato.
The sweet potato was just pricked with a knife, 5 min at 1000 watts in the microwave, brushed with coconut oil and air fryed at 200 C for 20 min.
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