Garlic scapes, those hardy green stems that grow in the spring from the tops of hardneck garlic bulbs, make a unique and wonderful pesto. In fact, garlic scape pesto gives us the best of all culinary ...

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Edited version of a story first published June 26, 2007: A few weeks before harvest, growers of hardneck garlic find their crop sporting loopy green pig's tails faintly bulging with seed-like bulbils.

Stay-Put Cooking is a frequent kitchen dispatch while you're stuck at home social distancing. Check out the archive for more tips and tricks. It’s June. Do you know where the scapes are? Also known as ...

If you've never grown garlic, here's how you do it: On a bright cool fall afternoon, before the ground has frozen, you pry an ordinary, unpeeled clove of garlic off the bulb. You plant it in the ...

Rochelle's Table: Garlic Scapes Rochelle Bilow at the Downtown Farmers Market talking about garlic scapes. She talks to Dale Haas, owner of Haas Farm in Red Creek, about one of his favorite recipes.

THE TASTE of spring is green. Well, if not exactly green, certainly greenish. Perhaps I have a touch of synesthesia, the peculiar condition characterized by an involuntary link between the senses.

Egg prices might still be kind of a mess, but if you have a problem with blossom end rot on your tomato plants, you can get a little extra mileage out of those pricey hen fruits by turning their ...

Instructions: In the bowl of a food processor, combine garlic scapes, Parmesan, pistachios, salt and pepper, and pulse to coarsely chop. While machine is running, gradually add oil until pesto is ...

It’s the season of overflowing market bags, heavy CSA boxes, and gardens run amok. Alexandra Stafford of Alexandra Cooks is showing us how to store, prep, and make the most of the bounty, without ...

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