I like to use fresh herbs when I cook and chives are one I wouldn’t be without. Chives are easy to grow, taste delicious and look attractive in the garden too. A bit about chives. **************** Allium Schoenoprasum to give Chives its Latin name, have been cultivated for thousands of years. The ancient Chinese are documented as using chives from 300B.C. Marco Polo is said to have brought Chives to Europe from China. There is evidence to show that the Romans believed that eating chives would help ease the pain of sunburn and sore throats. Bunches of dried Chives hung around the home are reported to ward off evil spirits and ...  Read the complete review

Chives is one of my favourite herbs because of its fresh flavour, and because it's so easy to use. I like foodstuffs which don't require cooking. HOW TO EAT IT I simply pick some chives from my herb garden or my window sill, chop it up with a knive, and sprinkle it generously on top of just about anything (except on chocolate mousse). Fresh chives tastes great with tomato salad, potato salad, mixed salad - well, any salad, really - and it adds a certain something to sandwiches. When I was a child in Germany, my mother made chives sandwiches, and I quickly learned to make them too: Spread a slice of bread with butter, half it, put lots ...  Read the complete review

With the recession and households attempting to make some savings on their outgoings, many people are going back to days gone by when growing your own vegetables, herbs or fruit was the norm. My husband thankfully is very green fingered, and was brought up in a household where growing your own was a family affair and he has carried on the traditions within our own home. Of the many things that my husband grows in the garden, one of the easiest that even I can get involved in (or wish to get invovled in) is the herbs that he pots up every year. One of the many herbs that he plants in pots are chives, a herb that is part of the onion family, and an extremely ...  Read the complete review

Chives are very versatile and I often use them in my cooking. One of my favourite uses for them is to blend chopped chives into some cream cheese and add some finely minced garlic and just a pinch of garlic powder, mix it all together well and you have a very tasty topping for crackers, to use on canapes or in a sandwich. The smallest species of the onion family chives are available all of the year round. Chives are a herb that grow in a large clump and resemble `blades of grass`, when you snip some to use remember to take the freshest and greenest among them. They have a mild onion type flavour and contain an oil that is rich in sulphur which is ...  Read the complete review

Chives – Allium schoenoprasum - are an indispensable perennial herb which should be grown in all gardens. Related to the onion, chives have aromatic, hollow, grass like leaves growing to 6 –8” high and beautiful purple pom pom flower heads in summer. Chives and some other similar alliums are natives of the orient. Some people maintain that chives were introduced into Britain by the Romans but others think they came much later. History records that Marco Polo brought back chives from China in the 13th century where they have been in use for over 4000 years. It seems likely that they were a later introduction to England because they were hardly ...  Read the complete review