Just when I thought I would have zero blog content to post, my brain zero's in on something new to me. Dehydrating chive blossoms is not new to me. However, using them in a new way is new to us. Of course, you will need a somewhat larger patch of chives in your herb garden to be able to do this. We allowed our chives to go to seed for several years. Did you know that one chive blossom can contain up to 120 or so seeds? Each of the tiny flowers in the chive blossoms can contain about 1-3 seeds each. I have used fresh chive tops to infuse into oil in the past (leave chive tops to dry before infusing), but I have not made infused vinegar or used them for other dishes (have added them to baked egg breakfast dishes). Most salad dressings we make here, use red wine vinegar, and most recipes to infuse the chive blossoms into vinegar, call for white wine vinegar. A new "first" time for us - I am making us an infused white wine vinegar. I w...
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