Foodie Ideas From Our Kitchen

Grilled Garlic Scapes

First of all, you need to harvest the garlic scapes when they are young, tender and mild.  When we chatted about how to sow and grow garlic, I reviewed why it was important to remove the scapes.  In case you didn’t know they are milder than garlic cloves and have a texture like asparagus. Ingredients: […]

Recipes

Salad Dressing with Garlic Scapes

Since this was the first year that I harvested garlic scapes, I decided to search for some recipes.  I found one for salad dressing.   Now this recipe called for 4 tablespoons of red wine vinegar which I thought was a bit overpowering so I toned it down and added fresh parmesan cheese – all […]

Vegetables

Harvesting Garlic Scapes

As you may recall, I planted my garlic last October, now here is what the plants look like as of today. The hardnecks will produce a flower stem that will loop around once or twice before straightening out which is called a scape.   While it looks really cool, you should cut the flower stem […]