الثلاثاء، 22 مارس 2011

Chives


Chives...................

Available fresh, frozen, and freeze-dried. Store dried chives in a cool, dry, dark place away from direct sunlight, heat and moisture. Keeps for 6 months to 1 year.

Chives is a mild herb member of the onion family. Chives has many uses and can be added to potato salad, baked potatoes, soups, salads, omelets, dips and spreads, pasta and sauces.

Want to use it anywhere in onion flavor without the hard sharpness of the onion to add. Best if used fresh. The flavor is lost in drying. Add fresh or dried chives at the end of cooking to get the flavor. Once you taste fresh chives, however, you will know there is no comparison in flavor. Soon you will probably be a fresh pot of chives on the windowsill, even if you have nothing else in your herb garden.

Store fresh chives in a damp paper towel in an airtight container in the refrigerator.

You can also chop fresh chives and freeze them with water in ice cube trays to use later if needed.

Chopped chives many foods lift above the ordinary. Sprinkling them on soups, salads, chicken, potatoes, boiled vegetables and eggs. Blend chopped chives with butter or cream cheese, yogurt sauce and baked potatoes. Add at the end of cooking or as a garnish.

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