Scapes, I think
June 25, 2023
In the span of a week, I 1) heard a gardener friend talk about (boast, really) eating her garlic scapes, 2) heard about Peter and Maya’s fancy graduation celebration dinner, at which they were served garlic scapes, and, today, 3) Mary informed me that we had a good crop of garlic and that she’d harvest it and we could separate out the scapes and eat them!
Until this week, I’d never heard of a garlic scape.
This is this year’s crop of newly harvested garlic:
It’s not a great picture because you can’t see the garlic bulbs… but here’s one of the cut bulbs, ready to be dried out in a paper bag for a while…
And here are the scapes! I will have to do a bit of culinary research to figure out what one does with scapes… but I’ll keep y’all posted!
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