Cooking with onion grass (garden, taste, better, eating)

[Racelady88]

Has anyone cooked with onion grass? Just curious.

[Debsi]

I've never heard of that.. does it look like chives?

[Racelady88]

Kind of. When you pick a piece it smells very strongly of onion and if you stick your tongue to it you get a very strong taste of onion. It grows wild here (and my husband wants it out of the lawn) http://farm1.static.flickr.com/5/596...19ea47.jpg?v=0

[Debsi]

It does look a lot like chives although my chives are currently flowering and have cute little onion-flavored flowers all over them.

I find they don't have much flavor left if you cook with them though. Better raw.

I am referring to the chives, I've never cooked the flowers.

[cynwldkat]

And here I thought those were wild onions. Learn something new everyday! Ha! They grow like crazy here and everytime my DH mows the lawn it smell like onions! There are onions on them if you dig them up! Are we talking about the same plant??

[Racelady88]

Yes, these do have a very tiny onion bulb if you dig them up. They do flower in the late spring/summer.

[Debsi]

Can you eat wild onion grass? - Yahoo! Answers

[Mar0]

My best friend and I used to pick onion grass when we were little and I always thought they were scallions. Whenever I smell it, I think of spending summers playing with her...

[andthentherewere3]

My 5 year old keeps picking ours growing wild in the lawn, and eating it. He loves eating herbs from my garden. I just fertilized the lawn though, so I had to tell him no more, it would make him sick.