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Get the most out your garlic plants! Complement your everyday dishes with scapes
Snip scapes when they form one loop or two to direct each plant’s energy to the bulb
It’s time now in my garden to pick scapes, those cute and curly stems that lead to a newly developing seedhead on each of our garlic plants. It’s best to snip scapes when they have formed one loop or two to direct each plant’s energy to the bulb below.
And the fun is that you don’t need a pot to put your pluckings in – you can simply pop each scape onto your wrist like a bracelet!
Delicious and crunchy, scapes can be chopped up for salads, sautés, stirfries, soups, omelettes or any other dish that gains from a garlicky green. Or we pitch some into a food processor with fresh basil, olive oil and pine, hazel or pecan nuts and a nip of salt for unforgettable pesto.
And tonight I’ll be trying this dip recipe by garden-to-kitchen wizard Sharon Hanna: combine a scape or two, cooked white beans, lemon or lime juice, mint leaves and a bit of olive oil.
If any part of the scape seems tough, we simply freeze those bits for future simmering in soup stocks.