(n.) A perennial plant (Allium Schoenoprasum), allied to the onion. The young leaves are used in omelets, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) parsley, chives, thyme, fennel or another herb for the parsley.
(2) Its gutsy flavour means tarragon goes well with other strong ingredients in a ravigote sauce: chop lots of tarragon, chives, chervil, parsley and watercress, and mix them with some chopped anchovies, capers and cornichons, then stir in some olive oil, a tiny splash of tarragon vinegar, a little lemon juice and a dab of Dijon mustard.
(3) Green leaves of leek and chive mainly contain kaempferol glycosides, with mono- and di-glycosides dominating in leek and di- and tri-glycosides in chive.
(4) Serves 4 4 oranges, 3 segmented with juice reserved, 1 zested and juiced 100ml olive oil, plus 2 tbsp for roasting 8 tinned anchovy fillets plus 1 tbsp of oil 2 garlic cloves, crushed 1 tsp fennel seeds, toasted and ground ½ tbsp sherry vinegar 2 heads of fennel, trimmed, cored and cut into quarters lengthways 2 heads of radicchio, cut in half lengthways, cores removed and each half cut into sixths 480g orecchiette pasta A small bunch of chives, chopped 40g parmesan, grated 1 Put a large pan of salted water on to boil.
(5) An improved method has been developed for the extraction of light filth from whole, cracked, or flaked spices (basil, bay leaves, clery leaves, chervil, chives, dill weed, mint flakes, parsley, rosemary, sage, tarragon, thyme, and vegetable flakes) and from ground spices (cloves, cumin, marjoram, mustard seed, oregano, sage, and thyme).
(6) Kaempferol-3-beta-D-glucoside and kaempferol-3-xylosyl-beta-D-glucoside were isolated from leek and the 3-beta-D-glucosides of kaempferol, quercetin and isorhamnetin as by-glycosides from chive.
(7) 2 To serve, crumble the goat's cheese over the top, followed by the chives mixed in the rapeseed oil.
(8) Serves 1-2 150g cabbage, finely shredded 80g leeks, well washed and chopped 130g wholemeal flour A pinch or two of sea salt 2 eggs, beaten 1 tbsp olive oil Toasted flaked almond and chives, to finish 1 Combine the cabbage, leeks, flour, and salt in a bowl.
(9) Sam Harris is chef patron of Zucca, London SE1; zuccalondon.com Henry Harris’s fourme d’ambert, crouton and chive omelette Facebook Twitter Pinterest Romas Foord for the Observer Photograph: Romas Foord for the Observer One of the fastest of dishes.
(10) However, only a few of these are important as food plants, notably onion, garlic, chive, leek, and rakkyo.
(11) Since this column started, you've probably spent a tenner or more on sachets of tired and wilting tarragon or chives.
(12) While basil, parsley, coriander and dill must be sown from seed every year or two, or bought time and again as immature specimens, perennials like rosemary, thyme, chives, sage, mint, bay, oregano and tarragon should last at least three or four years.
(13) With a toddler in tow, après ski for me meant a quick beer then a swim at our hotel – the Lechtaler Hof, smallest and sweetest of Warth’s handful of family-owned hotels – followed by fantastic five-course dinners that might include fragrant dumpling-and-wild-chive soup, roast lamb and divine fruit tarts.
(14) Soft herbs are the obvious choice (parsley, chives, or mint), but sage finely sliced and fried until crisp with the prosciutto is good.
(15) A swirl of noodles slicked with oil and studded with shredded chicken, the aroma of ginger and garlic, a few wilting chives placed on the plate as a final flourish.
(16) Serves 4 50g butter 1 kg banana shallots, finely diced ½ garlic clove, finely diced 2 leeks, diced and washed 2 large potatoes, peeled and ½cm diced 500ml vegetable stock 200ml double cream 100g creme fraiche 40g parmesan, grated A squeeze of lemon juice 150g goat's cheese 1 tbsp finely chopped chives 4 tbsp extra virgin rapeseed oil 1 On a medium heat, melt the butter and gently cook the shallots and garlic until soft.
(17) Stir in some finely chopped herbs – chives, tarragon, or parsley will all be good choices.
(18) Herb ricotta cakes Makes 6 For the batter: eggs 3 ricotta 250g plain flour 50g butter 30g, melted chives, chervil, parsley a small handful of each For the topping: avocados 2 medium lemon juice of 1 olive oil ricotta 6 tbsp sprouted seeds 6 large pinches Make the topping.
(19) Toss everything together, add the chives, mix well and serve.
(20) Stir in the chives and season with salt, pepper and a drop of tabasco.
Hive
Definition:
(n.) A box, basket, or other structure, for the reception and habitation of a swarm of honeybees.
(n.) The bees of one hive; a swarm of bees.
(n.) A place swarming with busy occupants; a crowd.
(v. t.) To collect into a hive; to place in, or cause to enter, a hive; as, to hive a swarm of bees.
(v. t.) To store up in a hive, as honey; hence, to gather and accumulate for future need; to lay up in store.
(v. i.) To take shelter or lodgings together; to reside in a collective body.
Example Sentences:
(1) Urban hives boom could be 'bad for bees' What happened: Two professors from a University of Sussex laboratory are urging wannabe-urban beekeepers to consider planting more flowers instead of taking up the increasingly popular hobby.
(2) This weekend a new dispute has erupted over government proposals to hive off child protection services to companies such as Serco and G4S ; perhaps the ministers and officials behind those plans should look at the case of Sana when they come to make their final decision on the future of another vulnerable section of the population.
(3) The typical synanthropic species Glycyphagus domesticus is totally absent from dwellings but occurs in 90% of honey-bee hives.
(4) They talk of cutting down to size , of hiving off, of limiting the scope, with all the manic glee of a doctor urging his patient to consider the benefits of assisted suicide.
(5) If bees from a second hive were allowed to forage at both control sites, however, recruits from the experimental hive, while orienting to these sites, exhibited no evidence of having used any distance information they might have received before leaving their parent hive.
(6) immunoglobulin E-mediated hay fever, asthma, eczema, hives) was examined in a nonclinical sample of 379 college students.
(7) Last month, the new TSB bank, hived off from Lloyds to increase competition in retail banking, was established with its headquarters in London, despite being founded in Scotland .
(8) It’s their winter food, for feeding the 10,000-strong colony in the hive when it’s too cold to fly.
(9) Therapeutic response was assessed according to the suppression of symptoms and symptom diary scores of daily itching and frequency, number, size, and duration of hives.
(10) For Hartnett, the new challenge is "re-structuring", by which firms hive off key elements of their trade to tax havens in Switzerland.
(11) Another, keen to make good on the advantage, was said to be a "hive of activity" in the days directly leading up to the inspection.
(12) For instance, the acute symptoms of allergy and asthma such as sneezing, bronchospasm and hives are believed to be largely the result of mediator release from mast cells whereas chronic symptoms (the result of allergic inflammation) can be explained on the basis of eosinophil-mediated tissue damage.
(13) After a few weeks, the hive had stabilised again, with around half of the old foragers now working as nurse bees.
(14) Symptoms include hives, skin eruptions, abdominal pain, perianal pruitis, diarrhea, and pneumonitis.
(15) If you want to go far, go together.” Teddy Ruge is the co-founder of Hive Colab , an innovation hub in Kampala, Uganda .
(16) Even so, King outlined a range of ideas that could involve a radical restructuring of the industry, including hiving off safe deposits from riskier assets.
(17) While some worker bees remain at home, others take flight in search of nectar, pollen and other hive essentials.
(18) Eosinophil counts (range, 4002 to 37,350 cells per cubic millimeter) increased in association with the onset of hives and decreased to baseline levels after their resolution.
(19) Risk declined with the total number of specific allergies reported (p less than 0.001), and was reduced in relation to a history of prior asthma, eczema and hives.
(20) Hives consistently began at the end of menses and lasted for 1 to 2 weeks.