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	Chives - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Chives are grown for their leaves, which are used for culinary purposes as condiment, which provide a somewhat milder flavour than its neighbouring Allium species.
		Chives are one of the "fines herbes" of French cuisine, which also include tarragon, chervil and/or parsley.
		Chives are also rich in vitamin A and C, as well as trace amounts of sulfur and iron, both needed by the body.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chives (1268 words)

	Garlic Chives
		Chives, collected from the wild since antiquity and cultivated by gardeners since the Middle Ages, is a hardy, spreading, herbaceous perennial that grows to about 70 cm (28 inches) tall.
		Garlic chives, a native of Asia, is not as winter-hardy as chives.
		Garlic chives' leaves are flat, solid, and paler green than those of chives, and taste and smell of mild garlic, with a sweetish undertone.
	www.herbs2000.com /herbs/herbs_chives_garlic.htm (1373 words)

	Chives
		Chives are also a delicious addition to soft chesses - far nicer than commercially bought cheeses, where the flavor of chives virtually disappears.
		Chinese Chives : Chinese chives, sometimes called garlic chives, have a delicate garlic flavor, and if you see them for sale in your local Chinese supermarket, they are worth buying as they add a delicate onion flavor to stir-fries and other oriental dishes.
		Unopened flowers of Chinese chives are an indication that the plant is young and therefore more tender than one with fully opened flowers.
	www.asianonlinerecipes.com /vegetables-guide/chives.php (283 words)

	MDidea Extracts Professional:Proper Special Extracts Series:Oriental garlic chives Extracts.Chinese leek,Allium ...
		TDS-Oriental garlic chives Extracts(Chinese leek,Oriental garlic chives,Allium tuberosum)
		Note that the singular chive is used for the plant, whereas the spice is usually referred to as plural form chives.
		Engl.: Chinese chives, Chinese leek, garlic chives, Oriental garlic, Oriental garlic chives.
	www.mdidea.com /products/proper/proper030.html (2680 words)

	Chives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Chives is a wild plant thought to have originated in Central Asia and now grown as a culinary herb in almost every country in the world.
		Chives is a word used to describe an herb, but is actually the smallest member of the Onion family.
		Chinese chives have a broader, flatter stalk that is grey-green in colour.
	www.innvista.com /HEALTH/foods/vegetables/chives.htm (314 words)

	Chinese Food Recipes–Glossary of Chinese food Ingredients - C
		Chinese cabbage - As many as 33 varieties of Chinese cabbage have been identified in Asia, and the most common varieties in the West are celery cabbage or pe-tsai, pak-choi or "bok choy", and "choy sum".
		Chinese Mushroom - Also called Shiitake mushroom, Chinese fl mushroom and forest mushroom (not to be confused with European dried mushrooms), these are the most widely used mushrooms in Chinese cooking and are grown chiefly in China and Japan.
		Chives - Aromatic plants native to Asia, chives are related to the garlic, onion, and leek.
	www.chinesefood-recipes.com /glossary_of_ingredients/ingredients_c.php (2919 words)

	Garlic Chive Seeds-Information
		Chinese leek, garlic chive, Oriental chives, Chinese chive flower stalk, yellow Chinese chives, Jiu Cai, Gow Choy, Gow Choi, Nira.
		It looks like grass, similar to chives, but has a gentle spicy flavor of garlic and distinct aroma so it is also called garlic chives.
		Chinese chives can be seeded in plant beds or transplant trays.
	www.agrohaitai.com /herb/chinesechive/chinesechiveinfo.htm (446 words)

	Chives and chinese chives - CHOW.com
		The most delicate member of the onion family, chives are mostly used fresh because they lose much of their flavor by drying, though they are often freeze-dried.
		Species related to Chinese chives are used in the cuisines of China, Tibet, and parts of Southeast Asia.
		Pull chive blossoms away from their green calyx and sprinkle over eggs, salads, rice, pasta, or fish, or stick whole blossoms into the center of a dish for a garnish.
	www.chow.com /ingredients/160 (597 words)

	The Tasteful Garden - Chives Growing - Common and Garlic
		Chives grow in a clump like grass sending up new sprouts or shoots as they grow to maturity.
		Garlic chives are a slightly different version of the common or onion Chives with flat leaves instead of tube shaped and a more pronounced garlic scent.
		For cooking, use Chives with cheeses, dips, salad dressings, potato salads, pasta salads, chicken and tuna salads, stuffed eggs and quiches, or on baked potatoes.
	www.tastefulgarden.com /Chives.htm (305 words)

	Chives, Garlic chives
		On chives small, round umbels of rose-purple or mauve flowers are borne on leafless stalks.
		Chives can produce an essential oil but usually the fresh or dried leaves are used in cuisine.
		Garlic chives, which have a taste reminiscent of garlic, are also high in vitamin C, plus contain carotene, vitamin B1 and B2, calcium and iron.
	www.omafra.gov.on.ca /english/crops/hort/herbs/chives.htm (660 words)

	Asian Vegetables: Selected Fruit and Leafy Types
		Chinese chives is a perennial plant 30 to 45 cm in height that grows in a clump of 4 to 10 bulbs, each producing 4 to 5 thin flat leaves.
		Chinese chives is a cool season vegetable which flowers in the hot summer months.
		Chinese chives are usually divided into leafy and flowering types, although most current cultivars are dual purpose.
	www.hort.purdue.edu /newcrop/proceedings1996/V3-488.html (2722 words)

	Garlic Chives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The stems are skinnier and flat, instead of hollow as are regular chives, with greenish white blooms that are about an inch wide and not as rounded.
		Garlic chives can be started from seed, but it does need to be fresh to germinate properly, so be sure to buy seeds from a reputable source or harvest your own.
		Chinese gardeners will often "blanch" part of their garlic chive crop by harvesting a plant to the ground, then covering with a layer of straw or a paper tent.
	www.chamomiletimes.com /articles/garlicchives.htm (790 words)

	Chinese Vegetables (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Chives are often stir fried with eggs, tofu, or noodles.
		Sometimes you will find light-yellow chives in the market, which were covered with dark material in their growing process.
		Chinese often use strong flavored ingredients like fermented fl beans or pickled mustard to remove some of the bitterness.
	www.fbmg.com /vegetableshome1/chinesevegetables.htm (1877 words)

	Chives - Bulk Spices & Herbs from Avon Spice Company
		Chives, Allium schoenoprasum, are the reed-like stems of a perennial, bulbous plant of the lily family.
		Chives are popular in European and Chinese cuisines and in the seasoning blend fines herbes.
		Chives are native to China and Taiwan and are also sourced from California.
	avonspice.com /db/Chives (150 words)

	Vitamins and Mineral Supplements and Herbal Supplements for your Health
		Following a folk remedy, 250 g of fresh Chinese chives were cut into 3-inch lengths, cooked to half-done, and fed to the child all at once.
		Immediately, 400 g of Chinese chives were cooked as in the Case 1 example and fed to the child all at once.
		Blanched chives are produced by depriving the plant of sunlight during part of its growth; these leaves are normally used in wonton soups and have different flavor than that of unblanched chives.
	www.herbalgram.org /naturemade/herbalgram/articleview.asp?a=107 (801 words)

	The Thorngrove Table: Stir-fried Chicken with Chinese Chives
		Amongst other goods I picked up were a large bunch of Chinese Chives (Gau Choy), the flat, dark green type (as opposed to the Yellow Chinese Chives, Gau Wong, which are shielded from the sun as they grow).
		Also known as Garlic Chives, these are quite diffent from the chives we usually use; Chinese chives are Allium tuberosum (the cultivated variety) or Allium ramosum (the wild variety), whilst normal, 'European' Chives are Allium schoenoprasum.
		Chinese Chives have a stronger, more garlicky taste and scent however, as well as a more fibrous texture, and substituting one for the other when making Chinese food doesn't really work (to my mind anyway).
	thorngrove.typepad.com /table/2005/08/stirfried_chick.html (1184 words)

	Chives - Chinese Garlic
		The Chives Chinese Garlic, Jiu, Cai, Gau Choy, 'Allium tuberosum', has leaves, flower buds, and flowers that have a delightful mild garlic flavor.
		Chinese Garlic Chive plants are 18 inches tall have flat leaves, 1/4 inch wide, and 10 to 18 inches long.
		Chives foliage is used as garnish to compliment onions, potatoes, asparagus, cauliflower, corn, tomatoes, peas, carrots, spinach, poultry, fish, shell fish, creamy sauces, cheese and eggs.
	www.naturehills.com /new/product/Seeds_product_page.aspx?proid=1754 (218 words)

	Growing and Marketing Chinese Vegetables in Central Kentucky
		Chinese cabbage, mustard greens, giant oriental radishes, and pak choi are now familiar to the U.S. market, but China has a treasure of lesser-known, delectable, and highly adaptable vegetables which may be easily grown all over the world (Li 1990; Larkcom 1991).
		Chinese and Oriental cuisine are of great interest to Americans despite the fact that high quality, authentic fresh ingredients demanded by Chinese cooking are often unavailable.
		Chinese eggplant, Chinese chives, yard long beans, pig ears, and Chinese radishes (daikon) were the most profitable crops on a per meter basis.
	www.hort.purdue.edu /newcrop/proceedings1996/v3-496.html (1597 words)

	vegetable gardening in winter
		CHIVES Allium schoenoprasum Chives have a very very mild taste, they are easy to grow, relatively pest and disease free, take up very little space, are either universally liked or are so innocuous they are endured, and they have genuinely attractive little purple flowering heads.
		Chinese chives form bulbs (edible, similar to shallots, but small) that can be dividd up and replanted.It does best, like most plants, in a fertile, moist soil, but is pretty hardy.
		CHINESE CABBAGE Brassica rapa subspecies pekinensis -Celery Cabbage, Chinese leaves(UK), Wong Bok, Pe Tsai Botanically a turnip, Chinese Cabbage forms dense cabbage heads that may be very upright and tall or may be round or barrel shaped (wong bok type); or they may be loose, open leafed varieties with broad stalks.
	www.naturalhub.com /vegetable_gardening_in_winter.htm (4484 words)

	Chives Herbal Information and Culinary uses for Chives
		Chives do not contain as much of the antiseptic sulfur oil as their onion cousins, and for this reason were overlooked for most medicinal uses.
		They were thought to have a magical power in keeping disease and evil at bay; believers hung bundles of Chives in their homes.
		A clump of Chives is actually many plants growing close together from several small bulbs.
	www.herbco.com /bulk_herbs/Chives.php (304 words)

	Floridata: Allium tuberosum
		Garlic chives is equally at home in the herb garden, the vegetable garden, a flower bed, or as an edging along a mixed border or along a path.
		Steve grows his garlic chives in the vegetable garden where they can be conveniently plucked for positioning atop baked pototoes.
		The dried seedheads of garli chive are as pretty as the flowers - download a large version (800x600) and plant some on your computer desktop.
	www.floridata.com /ref/A/alli_tub.cfm (617 words)

	Garlic Chives, Chinese Chives, (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The blanched chinese chives are much more valuable than the regular ones ($3 to $4 per pound).
		Chinese chives can be started from seeds, usually in late winter or early spring.
		Chinese or garlic chives grown to a height of 12 to 18 inches.
	www.rain.org /greennet/docs/exoticveggies/html/garlicchives.htm (410 words)

	eG Forums -> Chinese Leeks
		If you are talking about the green stem with the flower-bud tip (Jiu cai hua) rather than the leek (da suan) that is white, or the Chinese chive that is flat, then my favorite way is the stir/fry it with beef hreds that have been marinated with a soy, sherry, sugar, cornstarch and hoisin marinade.
		I wasn't familiar with the term Chinese leeks, but Google brought up a number of mentions that it was another name for Chinese chives (which is yet another name for jiu cai), or, to be scientific, Allium Tuberosum.
		The chinese leeks i have look differently and they are not chives either: at least they don't look similar to any of three varieties of chives i see in asian groceries.
	forums.egullet.org /index.php?showtopic=35392 (2294 words)

	In praise of wok hay for Chinese New Year
		"Chinese New Year is like a combination of Thanksgiving and Easter that celebrates the sacredness of the family and presents a time of renewal," says Grace Young, author of "Wisdom of the Chinese Kitchen" (Simon & Schuster, $27.50).
		Chinese greet each other by saying, "Kung hei fat choi," which means "May prosperity be with you." They decorate their homes with bright red banners inscribed with messages of luck and prosperity, as well as pots of fresh flowers.
		The Chinese believe that the animal ruling the year in which a person is born has a large influence on personality.
	www.azcentral.com /home/food/articles/0210wokhay10.html (1633 words)

	sweet scallion (English to French translation glossary) Cooking / Culinary,
		Because of its crisp, sharp fresh taste and its bright green and white color, it is used extensively in Chinese cooking.
		Chinese chives - Also known as garlic chives, the Chinese chive has been cultivated in China for over 2,000 years and is used extensively in Chinese cooking.
		Chinese chives can be substituted by garlic shoots OR chives (not as pungent as Chinese chives) OR flowering chives.
	www.proz.com /kudoz/1649187 (953 words)

	Chinese Chives - Green -- ThaiTable.com
		Chinese chives or garlic chives have flat dark green leaves with white flowers.
		Its taste is stronger than chives in the U.S. Both leaves and flowers are edible.
		They have a different mouth feel than Chinese chives - the blossoms are big and angular and can stay crunchy, like asparagus, when cooked quickly in a wok.
	www.thaitable.com /Thai/ingredients/Chinese_chives_-_green.htm (114 words)

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	www.iaswww.com /ODP/Home/Cooking/World_Cuisines/Asian/Chinese (793 words)

	Chives - Herb Database + Images
		Pour boiling water over dried or fresh chives; infuse 15 minutes and dilute with 2 or 3 parts water and spray at once.
		Bunches of chives were once hung from the rafters of homes in the belief they would drive away disease and evil influences.
		Same uses as chives but used where a garlic flavor is desired.
	earthnotes.tripod.com /chives_h.htm (782 words)

	Garlic chives - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Garlic chives (Simplified Chinese: 韭菜; Traditional Chinese: 韭菜; pinyin: jiu3cai4) is also known as Chinese chives, Chinese leek, Ku chai, Oriental garlic chives or, in Japanese, Nira (kanji: 韮; hiragana: にら; katakana: ニラ).
		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.
		A relatively new vegetable in the English-speaking world but well-known in Asian cuisine, the flavor of garlic chives is rather more like garlic than chives, though much milder.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Garlic_chives (269 words)

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