I do use the NYT recipes frequently. Sometimes they are terrific; sometimes just meh in spite of all the effort.

But more than once (or two or three times) they leave out something. Like they don’t tell you what to do with some item on the ingredient list.

Today I made a tofu/cabbage stir fry involving red onion. You chop the red onion and salt it, then leave it in a bowl. Then you add the cooked tofu and cabbage to the bowl with red onion. The onion never gets cooked, and tastes it. Yuck!

Just one example.

I find that now and then too. You just have to figure it out.

But raw red onion is just too sharp a flavor for me. I don't even like it on a burger, which needs a big slab of sweet onion.

I made the dish from a recipe I had clipped out of the paper a year ago. So today I looked for the recipe online to read the comments. People complained about various things, but not about the onion not getting cooked.

So I left my own comment.