Wild Onion

I was reading some Japanese nature articles online, and found a report of picking "nobiru". According to the author, it's a wild plants available in spring, looks like onion, and taste little spicy and so good. Nobiru was written in ancient Japanese books, Gods used it to cleanse evils. I've seen wild onions around the house and I think it's the same thing as nobiru, so I went for hunting them with a plastic bag and a fork (to dig).

There are wild onions everywhere!! Although, 6-10 inch tall ones are still young and small bulbs, it's not worth much to dig, I noticed. About 2 feet tall or taller would be big enough, and easier to dig & pull.

For about 30 minutes hunting, I gathered up this much wild onions (and a small blister on finger)

Once you know what/where to find and how to dig, it's not so hard to get bunch of them. Now, wash to remove dirt and outside skin, and cut roots off.

Washed & cleaned. Now what should I fix with them? Japanese recipes says:

-Eat fresh with sauce/dip
-Boil lightly and pour sauce
-Pickle bulbs in soy sauce
-Chop them up and marinate in miso paste

Hmmm. Hard to pick. How do American people eat them? (you eat them, right?)

Warning: there is a similar looking poison plants, called red spider lily. Easy way to figure out which or which is smell. Wild onion has strong onion-y smell but spider lily doesn't. So when you harvest it, make sure you sniff and it stinks.