I'd like to start by celebrating today's photos: They are all mine. This is exciting because all my other attempts at photographing our food have turned out looking... er... unappetizing. So I finally got some amazing shots out of our first CSA produce!
Ry & I were so stoked to start our CSA (stands for Community Supported Agriculture). We signed up back in March, and now receive a bi-weekly share of veg, fruit, eggs, and flowers from an organic farm on Long Island. Our first week we received kale, red leaf lettuce, spinach, bok choy, garlic scapes (seen here), rhubarb, raspberries, a bunch of lavender, snow peas, and mesclun greens.
So what exactly are Garlic scapes, you ask? They are the soft tender green shoot that grows out of a garlic bulb early in the planting. Eventually it hardens and becomes inedible- leaving only the bulb. But for a few precious weeks in early summer, these tasty shoots are available to eat. The little hat is cut off, and the green stem is then cut up, much like scallions. The flavor is garlicky for sure, but Ryan and I both found it to have a softer, sweeter flavor, and less of the bite of regular garlic.
We replaced the garlic in our pesto recipe with the stems of 4 scapes, added in a squeeze of lemon, and enjoyed a slightly grainier in texture, yet smoother in taste, version of our pesto.
Hurry and try some before these bad boys vanish from your local farmer's market!!
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