Along with it being strawberry season, it is scape season too! I always laugh when I remember back 14 years ago, when my husband and I were in our first apartment and we received a bag of garlic scapes in our CSA box. (The scapes are the top part of the garlic plant that will form a flower. You don't want this to happen, because then the energy will go into forming those seeds and not into the garlic bulb.) We both said, "What the heck are those?!" and then set them aside, to linger in the box until we threw them out. So awful. Flash forward to now, and on Wednesday night we had a wonderful dinner of linguini topped with homemade garlic scape pesto along with crisp salad from my garden. For the pesto, I combined a lot of scapes with a handful of kale leaves, then walnuts, pecorino, and olive oil. It was pungent and very garlicky - perfect for scaring away vampires! I have three containers in the freezer, so in the depths of winter, this green garden goodness will be a nice change from root veggie soups.
What have you been picking in your garden lately?
