Never heard of scapes before. Yours look delicious.

I've heard of ramps but not scapes. Your plate looks enticing.

I love garlic scapes.. and shrimp... mmmm...

I grow garlic chives, but yet have never eaten them. lol That looks really easy and delicious! Very pretty presentation!

You do arrange an artful plate, dcarch....We had a large garlic patch and the scapes were amazing! Coincidentally there were garlic scape recipes all over the internet that year. The second year, we waited too long to pick them, and as you say, they were tough.

Wow! Are you a professional chef? You should be! Beautiful plating. Never heard of scapes before.

dcarch, another beautiful plate, thanks so much.

For those who are unfamiliar with scapes.....

I only just learned of scapes on Thursday at our Farmers Market. One of the farmers made a couple of things from them to sample. I tried a pesto made with scapes and it was on a homemade bread piece. It was very good. Thanks for the info on them, rhizo.

I have always assumed that eating scapes was making a merit out of something you need to cut off to keep your garlic from wasting energy on flowering. Being a fan of garlic flowers and having more than enough garlic to do so I never thought to eat some myself. You dish looks wonderful.

This thread inspired me to go check my garlic.. and dang, nope, still all the softneck wild bed going on. Though that bed produces not scapes, but.. often grows weird bublis/flower head things that burst out mid stem that are also delightful. I like to harvest them and fridge pickle them up with some soy and asian flavors. Rare treat since most folks don't want their garlic producing that stuff. With the tiny clusters of cloves that grow beneath the soil- I like to pickle those when I got enough for a batch. And they can have a place for tossing several into a batch of soup or stew and then fishing out much like you would bay leaves or full stems of herbs in the burble.

One year I had so much hardneck garlic growing so plush... we were able to eat fresh scapes, and I was also able to can up a small batch of pickled garlic scapes- probably the prettiest pickles I ever made with the way the coiled up in the jar.

dcarch, you caused me to go out and check my garlic. Nope, no scapes yet, but I'm thinking pretty soon. It was all good, though, because I picked my asparagus while I was out there.

The shrimps looks really good. So you just gave those scapes a saute, or did you do something else with them?

Annie

Been picking scapes for over a week now. They're great in salads, stirfries, soups, stews--pretty much anything. Milder than the bulb.

This is a good reminder for me to check mine - should be coming along. Sometimes they do get away from me and turn fibrous and then I use them in a soup stock. Rhizo - the Cedar Circle Farm is not far from me and I didn't know about it. interesting website; thanks for adding that.

Thanks for the link, rhizo. I remember a friend bought a house and the previous owner had planted garlic all along the foundation next to the back door. We went out to look at the garden and rec'd a very pungent greeting. If only I'd known ...

What a beautiful looking meal. I feel like I could reach out to the screen and dig in!

Thank you all for your kind flatteries!

kathyg_in_mi, no. Nothing to do with professional cooking. Just a home cook who has this bad habit of playing with my food. :-)

rhizo_1 (North AL) zone 7, I disagree with the information from that link. Scapes are enjoyed as a vegetable. Scapes cannot be used like garlic.

annie1992 I hope you will get your scapes soon. Yeah just a simple saute.

Going out to my garden and pick some more.

dcarch

Ooooo, I never thought about threading shrimp on scapes. I'll try that next year. Voles got over 400 bulbs this winter :( . Fifteen years of work down the rodent tunnels, sighhhh.....

Glad I froze a ton of scape pesto last year!

That looks so good! Makes me hungry! I knew nothing of garlic scapes, but I do know about shrimp....one of my favorite foods.

I used some of my scapes on Saturday in a Sweet Chile Shrimp stir fry. I substituted chopped scapes for the shallots and minced garlic I usually use. I thought it was better than the usual recipe but my DW and son didn't like it as well. It sure wasn't plated as well as Dcarch's!

I still have a couple lbs. left in the fridge that I should either pickle or make scape pesto with. I haven't pickled any for a couple years now.

Ah, that just makes my mouth water dcarch! You all introduced me to scapes last year (I had a whopping 6 of them) and I found heaven : ) None this year, sadly as I didn't have any hardnecks to plant last fall.

Someone, I think functionthenlook, mentioned scape soup. Didn't have enough for that last year.

What a wonderful bounty of scapes you've got! Hoping to plant some this fall. Doubt I can go another year without 'em, especially after that photo.