Dear Folks, All day yesterday I had a craving for liver and onions to the point where I got started on the onions last night. The recipe that I've used for years calls for 5 medium onions, peeled and sliced. Well I didn't have 5 medium onions so I used 7 smaller-than-medium onions. It seemed to take forever to slice that many onions and when I was finished it was too late last night for me to pre-cook them in my microwave. No problem, I covered the bowl of sliced onions and stored it in the refrigerator. Today I went to the super market to buy a number of things I needed and, of course, one of them was the pound of beef liver. I looked all over the meat case but no liver. I asked one of the butcher assistants where the liver was and she couldn't find it either. She even went into the back to see if there was any there. Nope. Now, there is no way that I'm going out to the store again tomorrow in search of liver. Today was cold and rainy and raw and tomorrow doesn't promise to be any better. So forget liver and onions. But what am I going to do with all those onions? My first thought was to freeze them and use them in a nice potato soup but the total quantity of them is 5 cups and that's waaaayyy too many onions for potato soup. I racked my brain and remembered a delightful onion dish I haven't prepared in years and years. It's Onion Pie (actually an old German recipe, Zweibel Kuchen). Note: the recipe calls for a pie crust base but I don't do pie crusts and I just bake the filling. I got out the recipe for it and checked the quantity of onions it calls for. Three cups sounded like I was on the right track. But as I read the recipe ingredients further I came across 1-1/2 cups sour cream which I'd have to go to the grocery store to buy. Again nooooo waaayyy! I was disappointed until I decided to substitute the same quantity of mayonnaise. I can only hope that it will work but I don't see why not. It isn't all that different in consistency or taste for that matter and I think I can live with the end results. So now that I have earmarked 3 cups of the sliced onions in my refrigerator, I'm still left with 2 cups. I checked my potato soup recipe and it calls for only one sliced onion. (sigh!) But no problem, I'll just double the soup recipe and everything should come out about even. The whole scenario has mentally exhausted me for two days but don't tell anybody that I didn't spend the past two days in scholarly research or study or something along those lines. I need to keep up my image! :-) vee