Try something new! Our featured spice for the month of March is Dried Chives. You’re welcome to pick up a Spice Club kit beginning Saturday March 1st at 9am. The kit will contain:
- a sample of the spice
- recipe cards
- history of the spice
- a list of cookbooks you can check out from the library
Spice Club kits go fast! Unable to make it in time to grab one of your own? Try out a recipe! The recipes included in the kit are linked below.
Chives Quick Facts
- Chives are related to the onion and are a small perennial plant of the amaryllis family
- Known for their attractive flowers and flavorful leaves, the grow in clumps with dense spherical umbels of bluish or lilac flowers and usually only produce a few seeds
- Chives typically grow from small, white elongated bulbs that are planted, and regrow again and again, no matter how many times they are cut
- They are extremely high in vitamin C content, and act as an expectorant, anti-bacterium, and anti-inflammatory
- Chives have a pungent, leeky taste that make them popular in many cheese spreads, herb butters, soups, and omelets
- Chives are used internationally, and in the Middle Ages were considered a fountain of youth (a fact which has be disproven today)
Questions about Spice Club? Contact Ashley at 315-785-7714 or send her an email.