278621 Tue Jul 05 17:04:38 -0700 2005 7 31 Home Cooking 0 1475226 What fabulous curvy little guys they are! Found a great website with recipes and advice for freezing unused scapes. Have plans to add them to my swiss chard tonight; maybe put them in an omelette tomorrow. Link: http://www.laterregarlic.com/index.htm Tue Jul 05 17:04:38 -0700 2005 0 Sarah 1 1475232 I made a soup with them last week. Simmered until tender in chicken broth with a little potato for body. Puréed & passed through fine sieve. Puréed peeled cucumber, blended all together with buttermilk. Seasoned with cayenne and ground cumin, S&P. Tonight I'm going to do a Lao-style stir fry that normally calls for pork and long beans. I'm going to sub chicken breast and scapes. Finish with a splash of fish sauce. Tue Jul 05 17:28:28 -0700 2005 1475226 0 GG Mora 1 1475243 Chop em up, saute in butter until soft and add butter & scapes to mashed potatoes. Along with a bit more butter and perhaps a bit of light cream. Not every day, of course. Tue Jul 05 18:33:22 -0700 2005 1475226 0 FlyFish 1 1475296 Awright...I'll bite! What are garlic scapes? How do they differ from garlic cloves? Or, for that matter, how do they differ from garlic heads? Wed Jul 06 08:04:35 -0700 2005 1475226 0 ChiliDude 2 1475317 They are the stem that comes up from the garlic bulb, before the flower blooms. I had recently tried some baby garlic, which looks like a green onion and has a mellow garlic flavor. I use so much regular garlic in the house, that it is a treat to get the flavor from something other than a clove. Apparently, if you get too many, you can chop them up and freeze them in a baggy, or make garlic scape pesto. Wed Jul 06 11:43:06 -0700 2005 1475296 0 Sarah 3 1475426 Thank you for the definition of garlic scapes. I've been growing garlic chive from the same plants for over 30 years that was given to me by a Chinese coworker, and have watched them go to seed at the end of each growing season. I never knew that the stems which produce the flowers had a name. I will remember it now. The Chinese value the scapes from the garlic chive plants and this particular cultivar is called 'jiao cai' in Mandarin. Years ago, I used to cut off and throw away the scapes until some of my Chinese coworkers told me that the scapes were valued more than the chive leaves. Thu Jul 07 08:12:04 -0700 2005 1475317 0 ChiliDude 1 1475313 I received garlic scapes in my organic produce box this week and I made a great omelette with them last night. I will spare you the mixing the egg and making the omelette part. 1. Chop 1 garlic scape and sauté in a little bit of olive oil. Add salt and pepper and a large handful of sliced, fresh spinach. Sauté until the spinach is just "fallen". Put aside. 2. Cook the omelette in the same pan you used for the garlic scapes/spinach mixture. 3. When omelette is ready, put the spinach onto one half of the omelette, fold, and voilà. It would have been great to add sharp cheddard or feta and walnuts, but I had neither. It was a nice quick hot summer night dinner. Wed Jul 06 11:19:53 -0700 2005 1475226 0 Louise 1 1475342 Love them boiled & dressed with a vinaigrette. Especially a Chinese-style soy sauce, black vinegar, chili flakes in oil. Wed Jul 06 13:25:52 -0700 2005 1475226 0 Aromatherapy