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Scapes links with recipes & scape lore, fact & factoidGarlic scapes continue to grow in renown, with more foodies & culinary bloggers discovering them each year. Herewith, our classic favorite references, plus a few new links we've uncovered in spring 2011, with facts (or, in some cases, factoids) about the edible garlic stalks, and with recipes or serving suggestions. Our favorite links, starting with our own page of scape recipes & serving suggestionsThe Garlic Farm's recipe page, with our own pesto method. Jessie at the Hungry Mouse blog illustrates with plentiful photos how she makes her scape pesto--with lots of great shots of the Garlic Farm, as well as closeups of her pesto prep. Melissa Clark's famous New York Times article that put scapes on the map in the Northeast. More scape links for fans of the garlicky stalksNot Without Salt blog rhapsodizes over scape and offers a few recipes & photos. Dorie Greenspan gives her pesto recipe. The Washington Post blog from 2006 includes a factoid or two, but the serving ideas are worth a quick look. A half dozen cooking ideas for scapes comes from eHow. Scapes make up a part of the spring traditions in many parts of the world where hard-necked garlic flourishes. In a 2005 article for Mother Earth News, William Woys Weaver recalls tasting scapes for the first time in an Italian-speaking Istrian village in Slovenia. And in the American-Czech-German Corner of Taste of Home, a blog collection, dozens of recipes postings feature scapes, garlic, onions, and leeks. The recipes peter out after page 7 of the comments, but a number of them look very promising. That includes a mashed potatoes with scapes recipe that made us wonder what mashed potatoes would taste like if we were to mix in two or three tablespoons of scape pesto. Posts #28 and #30 incorporate scapes. Marc, one of our Garlic Farm regulars, suggests two more links: A scape & ricotta pizza at Herbivoracious looks tasty. And boy, what a great name for a veggie food blog! By contrast, the author of the Food in My Beard evidently doesn't worry about the name of his blog grossing out his prospective readers. His recipe experiment uses the scapes as twine in a spicy chicken breast recipe, the way some chefs prepare beggar's purses tied up with chives A few video clipsIf you're really in need of some scape-oriented procrastination, we found some video clips: Willi Galloway and friend show how to make yet another variation on garlic scape pesto, this one with their home-grown peas, to serve with pasta. The equally home-grown video clip starts with a gardening scene, but the focus shifts to cooking about halfway through the segment. In a video clip titled What Are Garlic Scapes, Eric explains a bit about scapes, mostly accurately, shows a harvester's view of the field, and then more than halfway into the video clip, at minute 3:18, begins a very basic grilling demonstration. Eric suggests eating the "flower" part of the stalk, but we've found that its texture a little fibrous for most scape fans. About halfway through, Eric also offers a demonstration of his stainless-steel method for removing the garlic smell from your hands. Finally, a truly silly (but mercifully short) clip of a guy not recognizing the vegetal nature of scapes, while in the surrounding AmateurGourmet blog the cook describes in text his scape conversion experience. Hardly any culinary value to the video. Really silly. Don't say we didn't warn you: it's silly. Interesting only to fans of homemade sophomoric imitations of B-movie horror flicks. Remember: We warned you that it has no redeeming social value. |
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