Eating from your yard tip ~ Hooray the garlic chives are in flower! Few people are more fond of invasive plants than I am, but my friend it is in your best interest to utilize the garlic chives flowers before the prolific self seeders take over the garden. The leaves and flowers are edible garlic goodness. My favorite use is to put the flowers in my cooking wine to infuse some garlic into the wine. It is easy to create a nice garlic chive vinegar by just covering the garlic chive flowers in vinegar and leaving them in a dark place for four weeks. My next favorite is to mix the garlic chive flowers with nasturtium flowers in cream cheese and serve with crackers. The garlic chive leaves are tougher than onion chive leaves, so it is wise to chop them finer. The flowers and leaves are a nice garlicky addition to potatoes or egg dishes (especially scrambled and deviled). Deborah Yost made a really nice mash potato with garlic chives, lemon oregano, garlic, and double cream Gloucester cheese, butter, milk and of course potatoes for Garlic Nosh. The flowers also make a lovely garnish. So tonight toss some garlic chives on your baked potato, on your salad and in your pasta before they take over your garden. How do you eat garlic chives?
