Post by kedigato on Feb 23, 2009 16:17:45 GMT
Here are my Garlic chives - - - - -
I have an old kitchen sink where I have my few herbs and proudly call my Herb Garden. It is on the patio, so easy to get at.
This is really a nice addition to anyones herb garden.
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Excerpt from Wikipedia - - - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garlic_chives )
Garlic chives are also known as Chinese chives, Chinese leek or Oriental garlic chives.
The plant has a distinctive growth habit with strap-shaped leaves unlike either onion or garlic, and straight thin white-flowering stalks that are much taller than the leaves. It grows in slowly expanding perennial clumps, but also readily sprouts from seed. Besides its use as vegetable, it also has attractive flowers.
A relatively new vegetable in the English-speaking world but well-known in Asian cuisine, the flavor of garlic chives is more like garlic than chives, though much milder. Both leaves and the stalks of the flowers are used as a flavoring similarly to chives, green onions or garlic and are used as a stir fry ingredient. In China, they are often used to make dumplings with a combination of egg, shrimp and pork. They are a common ingredient in Chinese jiaozi dumplings and the Japanese and Korean equivalents. The flowers may also be used as a spice. In Vietnam, the leaves of garlic chives are cut up into short pieces and used as the only vegetable in a soup of broth and sliced pork kidneys.
Many garden centers carry it (usually unaware of its culinary uses) as do most Asian supermarkets.
I have an old kitchen sink where I have my few herbs and proudly call my Herb Garden. It is on the patio, so easy to get at.
This is really a nice addition to anyones herb garden.
* * * * * * * * * * * *
Excerpt from Wikipedia - - - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garlic_chives )
Garlic chives are also known as Chinese chives, Chinese leek or Oriental garlic chives.
The plant has a distinctive growth habit with strap-shaped leaves unlike either onion or garlic, and straight thin white-flowering stalks that are much taller than the leaves. It grows in slowly expanding perennial clumps, but also readily sprouts from seed. Besides its use as vegetable, it also has attractive flowers.
A relatively new vegetable in the English-speaking world but well-known in Asian cuisine, the flavor of garlic chives is more like garlic than chives, though much milder. Both leaves and the stalks of the flowers are used as a flavoring similarly to chives, green onions or garlic and are used as a stir fry ingredient. In China, they are often used to make dumplings with a combination of egg, shrimp and pork. They are a common ingredient in Chinese jiaozi dumplings and the Japanese and Korean equivalents. The flowers may also be used as a spice. In Vietnam, the leaves of garlic chives are cut up into short pieces and used as the only vegetable in a soup of broth and sliced pork kidneys.
Many garden centers carry it (usually unaware of its culinary uses) as do most Asian supermarkets.
