Garlic is a truly wonderful plant…

Down at the market this past Saturday I noticed a big ‘ol pile of scapes in one of the booths… so I, of course, had to get me some of them.

Rather than look for a recipe online, I improvised and whipped up a decent cream sauce:

butter
green onion
scapes!
salt
pepper
white wine
allspice
cream
parmesan

Dinner turned out nicely and most everything you see on the plate (steak, scape, pasta, broccoli) came from either Buncombe or Madison County… the lettuce, as close as the backyard.

The garlic we’re growing here out back won’t give up any scapes since neither are hardneck varieties… so I may need to add another variety to the mix this fall.