Garlic Scapes

Today I enjoyed the fruits of my mom's (sometimes questionable) labor. She's planted like 1000 bulbs of garlic and shallots. Insane. But that's my mom and now you know where I get my tendencies.

As a result, we have bags full of garlic scapes, which are the flowering part of the garlic plant. It's the curly thing in the picture. You have to cut them off so the garlic bulb in the ground grows bigger and so the garlic seeds don't sprout and grow. The garlic that grows from seeds ends up being way to small to use. You have to plant the cloves instead.

Koreans eat garlic scapes like vegetables and yes, they are seriously garlicy tasting. During this total slacker day, I found http://foodgawker.com and made garlic scape pesto, garlic scape white bean dip, and roasted garlic scapes, all with fresh thyme, which is now flowering.

I also made Andrea Ngyuen's Lemongrass Pork and sliced it and we had it in Bun Salad Bowls with mint, orange mint, and perilla leaves for the herbs, also from the garden. Everyone was very happy, including Anorexic Alex.

It was a complete waste of a day. How could something so wrong feel so right? :=)

The good news is, I have not listened to, googled for, or watched any Adam Lambert videos today! So I guess this is better than how I spent last Saturday.