The Dreamboat and I have been excitedly going through our Community Sustained Agriculture (CSA) box each week to see what’s inside. For the most part it is laden with tasty veggies that I already know the name of, but sometimes there is a new surprise in the mix.
One of these surprises was a large handful of garlic scapes in our first two boxes.
I had never heard of the scapes, but it is simply the top part of the garlic plant. It looks like a closed flower waiting to bloom, but apparently if you leave it to do so it will sprout small garlic bulbs that you can then plant into the garden.
If you do this, though, the plant will have to divide nutrients between the stalk and the bulbs, so farmers and gardeners tend to cut the scapes off.
So what did we do with the garlic scapes?
We chopped them up and added them to my famous (slash taken from my best friend’s recipe box) Goat’s Cheese Brushetta. Generally the recipe calls for a chopped up clove of garlic, but I substituted a handful of chopped garlic scapes in its place. Continue reading →
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