Garlic Scape RECIPES

-Many different & delicious ways to cook Scapes:

Grill, roast, broil or saute them in olive oil or butter, as you would asparagus. Use them in omelets, stir fries, and even chopped fine in mashed potatoes, pasta, salads or bread dough.  In the photo above, at Clear Sky's retreat kitchen, we're serving them up grilled, with some olive oil, salt and pepper, along with roasted yams.

- Scape PESTO recipe:

Chop 1 pound of garlic scapes into 3 inch lengths then process in food processor until pureed. Add 1 cup parmesan & 1 cup pine nuts and process until smooth. Slowly add ½ to 1 cup olive oil as the food processor runs and continue until all the oil is combined into the garlic. Add salt to taste. Store in an air-tight jar in the refrigerator & Enjoy!

-Garlic scape PICKLES recipe:

Clear Sky Farm is offering jars of mindfully made pickled garlic scapes for sale from this season's scapes.  Or, you can make your own, using fresh garlic scapes available from us or at most local farmers markets.

Combine 2 litres water with 2 litres natural vinegar.  Add 8 tablespoons of pickling salt, and bring to the boil.  Meanwhile, cut the scapes into whatever size you'd like, (not minced though) and fill clean jars with the garlic scapes.  Once the vinegar, water & salt has come to the boil, fill the scape jars with this liquid.  Add some pickling spices like pepper, dill seed, cayenne if you like.  Finally cover the jars with canning lids and bring them boil , completely covered for 10 minutes.  They'll keep a really long time that way.

Pickling has been used for centuries to preserve food. The above scape pickle recipe is the 'fast' pickling method. There are other lacto-fermented scape pickling recipes that are even healthier and nutritious - fermented full of healthy microbes and more.   I'll post some of those recipes later when I get a chance.

ENJOY!