Garlic Snapes- oops, make that scapes!
July 8th, 2008Too much Harry Potter, you know. I’ve made that mistake a few times today.
So we are on our third week of our CSA from Stillman’s and our boxes have been bountiful– our first box consisted of:
Spanish Kale; Yellow Chard; Arugula; Spinach; Beets & their Green Tops; a bunch of lettuce; and a box of strawberries
And the second was similarly full of greens; this weeks was a bit more mixed, but equally great. We’re gonna be busy cooking this summer!
Today we got some garlic scapes, which are essentially the buds of garlic flowers cut before they bloom. I’m a garlic scape newbie so we’ll see how it goes– I’m sauteeing ‘em up with some summer squash and kale to have over some cheese grits (ahh, the South sticks with ya, even if you leave) for dinner tonight.
This week has also marked the first time we harvested from our gardens: lettuce! We should have cucumbers in 1-2 more days. I’d love to post a picture but I can’t find my camera cord! I also was lucky enough to get some rhubarb this week from a member of our community garden’s rhubarb plant. I’m looking forward to some more strawberry rhubarb pie!
(I finally learned how to make pie crust 2 weeks ago– one of my new year’s goals for 2008.)