I just tried garlic scapes for the first time this week. I bought 8 for $1 at the Farmer's Market in town. I made a pasta sauce with Italian sausage, and threw them some in for extra flavour. Yum! Tonite, I sauteed the scapes in some butter and added them to the mashed potatoes and parsnips we had with dinner tonite. Also very tasty! They are so versatile, and so much milder than garlic. I just wish they were available all year long.
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Garlic scapes are the seed heads that form on the garlic as it grows (the above the ground part) and need to be picked off so most of the energy of the plant will go into bulb formation. They taste like garlic and can be toasted or fried (sauteed) or battered and fried. They are more mild than the garlic cloves. There was a previous file on garlic here on the site and I think it had some recipes for them also and you could probably find it in a search at the top right.
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Garlic Scapes
Posted - Aug 19 2006 : 8:55:50 PM
