Every week we try to provide an herb choice with your CSA share. I think that herbs are an easy way to elevate a so-so dish to a ‘wow’ dish, so I really love that herbs are included in our CSA shares.

This week two of the herb choices are garlic chives and the more common onion chives.

In the photo below garlic chives are on the left. They are larger and have flat leaves and taste mildly of garlic and onions. The onion chives are on the right and are tube shaped and hollow and have a mild onion flavor and are very tender.

Garlic chives can be eaten raw but also hold up to cooking and are very similar in texture to leeks when they are cooked-kind of melting into a dish. Onion chives are almost always used fresh and raw and are bright and have a slight ‘snap’ when you bite them.

Lots of Asian dishes use garlic chives, they are great tossed last minute in soups or any sauteed meat, egg or vegetable dish.

I grilled some asparagus the other day and heated up some butter with garlic chives while the asparagus was cooking.

This simple side dish was totally the star of our meal.

If you haven’t tried garlic chives maybe grab some this week and give them a try and let us know how you like them.

Have a great week and I’ll see you at pickup.

Mo