Easy Ways to Use Chive Flowers in Your Everyday Meals
https://gardenbetty.com/chive-blossom/
After you’ve separated all the florets, here are a few different ways you can use chive flowers in your everyday cooking:
Garnish rice and noodle bowls.
Garnish roasted vegetables, meats, fish, and poultry.
Garnish bowls of soup at the table.
Add them to herb-infused oils.
Add them to herb-infused vinegars (or make chive blossom vinegar, below).
Add them to salad dressings.
Toss them with all kinds of salads (green, grain, pasta, tuna, egg, potato, or fruit salads).
Stir them into softened butter or cream cheese.
Stir them into brie, goat cheese, or other soft, spreadable cheese.
Mix them into deviled egg fillings.
Mix them into biscuit dough or savory pancake batter.
Sprinkle them over your favorite aioli or dip.
Sprinkle them over crackers and cheese.
Sprinkle them over eggs, omelets, frittatas, crepes, toast, and other breakfast meals.
Sprinkle them over polenta, mashed potatoes, smashed potatoes, or baked potatoes.
Diana here: I like to make a compound butter with both snipped Chives and the Chive Blossoms. It has a slightly onion-y taste, but not overwhelming. Great on chicken or fish or pasta and nice spread on a toasted bagel. Recipes at the above link.
It LOOKS like, we’re past the frost danger, but......
I’m resisting putting the tomatoes in. It’s going to be a cool, wet week, perfect for planting all the tree seedings I got from the State Forest nursery, but also perfect for blight on the tomatoes.
BUT.... I will be prepping the beds anyways. Then the tomatoes can go in as soon as it looks reasonable.
thx for the ping
Looks like a soil thermometer is totally different than that other gadget. Can I use my bread thermometer, lol! I have half a dozen of those, I can reallocate the one that rises slowly
It’s been another moist week here in Central Missouri. That’s good news for the pond but bad news for getting garden work done.
My buddy Nick and I ran the fyke net in both of my ponds over the weekend. We sent a couple hundred bluegills from my bait pond to his quarry lake Saturday morning and re-deployed the net in the front pond Saturday afternoon. After that was done we pulled out a couple fishing rods and some cold beer and sat on the dock catching fish for a couple hours. We wound up fileting 25 >7” bluegills and one 12.25” yellow perch (right at 4lbs. of filets all told) and had a nice little fish fry for supper yesterday.
In between all of that I managed to slop around in the mud long enough to get a couple cattle panels installed on the sides of the new hoop house. I need to put another seven or eight panels up and frame in the ends to be ready for plastic sheeting. Also got the grass mowed and replaced the grow tubes around three of my chestnut trees with wire cages. The dang deers have started chomping on the tops of the ones that have grown out of the tubes. I ran out of 6’ welded wire before I finished so I need to grab a roll of that when I go to buy cattle panels.
The fun never ends around here...