Eating from your yard tip~There are few things I love more than garlic. Garlic scapes prime our taste buds for July’s garlic harvest. The scapes are the seed head forming above the garlic plant. By cutting off the scape all the energy is directed back to creating the most fabulous garlic bulb. Scapes even come with their own handle for easy gathering. The garlic scapes tastes like garlic, so it can be added to dishes you would normally use a garlic bulb. Pamela Cuttlers gifted me a jar of pickled garlic scapes~few things more addictive. Delayed gratification has never been my strength, so I stir fry the seed heads with the intention of adding them to my pasta, but they are super good and never meet the pasta. On a visit to see my cousin Sherry Glass-Smith at the top of Wisconsin we tried garlic scape pesto at a local farmers market~off the charts garlicky! Inspired by Sharon Ohmberger’s chunky rose petal pesto from last week I added rose petals to the garlic scape pesto~beautiful and yummy! Tonight my plan is to make bacon wrapped garlic scapes. It is well known that I am not a fan of soup, but if against better judgement you make soup in the summer, garlic scapes could be a nice garlicky addition. How about garlic scape infused cooking wine or vinegar? Take advantage of folks wearing masks to eat garlic scapes to your heart’s content! How do you eat garlic scapes?
– Jill Kuhel
