Numbers 11:1-5

1 And when the people complained, it displeased the LORD: and the LORD heard it; and his anger was kindled; and the fire of the LORD burnt among them, and consumed them that were in the uttermost parts of the camp.

2 And the people cried unto Moses; and when Moses prayed unto the LORD, the fire was quenched.

3 And he called the name of the place Taberah: because the fire of the LORD burnt among them.

4 And the mixt multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat?

5 We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick:

After the Exodus from Egypt, the children of Israel began to complain.  They got tired of the manna that fell from heaven and began to thing longingly about their time back in Egypt.  When they were in bondage, working as slaves for their cruel taskmasters.  The first thing they remembered fondly was the food. 

I thought it interesting that onions are only mentioned once in the Bible in Numbers 11:5.  According to literature I read, onions were cultivated way back in Egypt and there are drawings of onions in the pyramids!  Well, we like onions, too.  We had a bumper crop of them this year - the best crop we've ever had.  We harvested them all and cured them so that they would last.  The photo below is just one of many trays of onions drying in the sun right after harvest.

We had one small issue.  Four of the onions were buried a little deep and didn't quite bulb.  We didn't harvest them as they weren't matured.  We were fortunate.  I scraped the dirt and mulch from around them and they began to develop bulb - not huge bulbs, but bulbs nonetheless.  Last week I harvested those four.  Instead of curing them for shelf storage, we sliced them up. 

We laid them in the trays to a food dehydrator and turned it on.

After about 10 hours of drying, this is what those bad boys look like.  Looks like they've dwindled away to nothing but what remains is crisp and flavorful.

We put the dried onions into pint-sized jars.  So four onions made two pints of dried onions.

When our store of fresh onions are depleted, we'll still have some dried onions to use for cooking gravies, stews, etc.