Wednesday eating from your yard tip~Onion chives are one of my top five favorite herbs! Both the flowers and the leaves have a sudtle onion flavor. My favorite way to eat chives are chopped up and heated with a quarter size of oil to flavor the oil before I throw in my eggs. The flowers and leaves mixed into cream cheese is a party crowd pleaser. Both visually and palette pleasing mix flowers in your green, potato or egg salad. They can also be tossed into your pasta dish. Of course the traditional favorite is mixed with sour cream on a baked potato. You can also chop the leaves into soften butter and mold it in the refrigerator in fancy shapes. Thanks to Sara Zimbelman for telling me about freezing the chopped chives in butter rolled up in wax paper to enjoy chives all winter. They stayed green, crisp and flavorable~score! Enjoy some chives my friends~let me know your favorite ways to eat them!
– Jill Kuhel
