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When you have more than 200 head of garlic growing in the garden this is the time of year people start showing up.
"What you doing there?" asked a neighbor I had not seen since early winter. "Those garlic scapes you're cutting?"
The woman left with a bag filled with 20 or so of my scapes. She said that she would make a pesto, which is what many people will do. I said that she ought to try this aglio e olio with a few of the scapes, but I'm pretty certain that she wasn't paying any attention.
Her loss.
A simple aglio e olio using garlic scapes instead of cloves is a great change of pace. And this is the only time of year that we get to do it.
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Get yourself around four or five scapes.
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Chop them up like so. (Get your pasta going, by the way, because this won't take very long at all.)
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Saute at medium heat in plenty of olive oil with three or four anchovy filets and a little chopped hot pepper.
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When your pasta is al dente add it to the pan, along with some of the well-salted pasta water, then turn up the heat to high and incorporate.
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If only my neighbor had been listening.
1 comment:
Never heard of scapes until now but I would definitely try your plate If I could find them.
Yum!
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