The Weekly Share

With the second week’s share we found ourselves with some ingredients we don’t normally keep around the house. Namely, fresh basil and garlic scapes. Using one of our favorite websites, AllRecipes.com, my wife found the recipe for Basil Chicken over Angel Hair.  She made this for dinner last night and I thought the recipe was delicious.  Using the garlic scapes in place of a clove was a great way to change it up.  The scapes have the taste of garlic but without so much of the garlic ‘heat’.  Thus the garlic flavor, while there,  doesn’t overpower the flavors of the other ingredients and as a whole the final result was savory.

Besides the fresh basil and garlic cloves, the recipe also calls for tomato and onion.  We had already used the most of the tomatoes and onions so we had to go with store bought, but had we planned ahead we could have made use of four different share items in one recipe.

For us the garlic scape was a new food and we asked the basic questions of what is it and how do you use it?  Here are a few interesting links about the garlic scape:

Once unused, garlic scapes a delicacy

Garlic Scape Pesto

Seems like June is best month for scapes and with any luck we’ll get some more in the next share.  The pesto recipe sounds good.

Tags: Musings, Recipes

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