Tag: garlic scapes

The Ultimate Farmers Market Guide to Garlic

The Ultimate Farmers Market Guide to Garlic

If you aren’t a vampire, you know that garlic is essential to basically every meal. Whether roasted or raw, this pungent plant can be used in many different ways. And even though I know we are all somewhat familiar with the stinking rose, you might…

Garlic Scape Pesto

Garlic Scape Pesto

When you see garlic scapes for the first time, you’ll probably think that it is some kind of alien vegetable. I mean, they do look funky, but I promise they are really easy to use in meals. This garlic scape pesto is the perfect sauce…

Farmers Market Finds: July, Part 1

Farmers Market Finds: July, Part 1

What you can find at farmers markets constantly changes, and varies based on location. In fact, the variety can make it really hard to plan ahead of time what you need, because something might not quite be in season yet, the crop might not have good yield, or any number of other reasons why that particular item isn’t there that week. What I like to do, however, is to walk around the market, get an idea of what’s there, and then plan my week of meals around what I see that week.

In this series, I’ll be going over what I buy each week, and plans for those finds (if I have them) throughout the upcoming week.

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