Garlic scape soup is a cream-based blended soup made with fresh garlic scapes, potato, onion, and stock. It takes about 30 minutes and serves four. The scapes give it a mild garlic flavour -- noticeably gentler than a soup made from garlic cloves. The honest case for this … [Read more...] about Creamy Garlic Scape Soup — Mild, Simple, and Ready in 30 Minutes
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Garlic Scape Green Sauce — 5 Minutes, No Cooking Required
Garlic scape green sauce is a blended raw condiment made from garlic scapes, flat-leaf parsley, white wine vinegar, olive oil, and seasoning. It takes five minutes to make, keeps three days in the fridge, and works alongside cold meats, grilled fish, eggs, and roasted … [Read more...] about Garlic Scape Green Sauce — 5 Minutes, No Cooking Required
Garlic Scape Compound Butter — Ready in 10 Minutes, Keeps All Summer
Garlic scapes are the curling green stems that grow from hardneck garlic in late June, a few weeks before the bulbs are ready to harvest. They need to come off -- leaving them on means smaller bulbs -- but that doesn’t mean they belong in the compost. They have a fresh, mild … [Read more...] about Garlic Scape Compound Butter — Ready in 10 Minutes, Keeps All Summer
Garlic Scapes: 4 Edwardian-Inspired Recipes (And Why Mrs. Patmore Never Wasted Them)
What are garlic scapes? Garlic scapes are the curling flower stalks produced by hardneck garlic varieties in late June. They appear several weeks before the bulb is ready to harvest. Removing them redirects the plant’s energy into growing a larger bulb. They are edible, mildly … [Read more...] about Garlic Scapes: 4 Edwardian-Inspired Recipes (And Why Mrs. Patmore Never Wasted Them)
Chive Blossom Compound Butter: Make It Once, Use It All Summer
There is a short list of things worth keeping in your freezer at all times. A log of compound butter is on it. Ten minutes of work in May and you have something useful through August. That is a trade-off worth making, especially when the ingredient that makes this version … [Read more...] about Chive Blossom Compound Butter: Make It Once, Use It All Summer
