3/31/2007

Chives




Springtime and the very first gift of the garden is chives.

Chicken breasts in chive cream
Baked potatoes with sour cream and chives
Chive Oil on just about everything
Gnocchi with chive butter
Chive Dumplings
Goat Cheese and Chives
Smoked Salmon on dark bread with farmer's cheese and chives


The sweet leaf is always the first to push through the snow and remind us that in a few short months the herb garden will be back in bloom. Two years ago I put in some garlic chives too, a very different taste with beautiful white flowers. The chive plant also had beautiful lavendar flowers and can be grown quite successfully in a sunny window year round.

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