Garlic Scape Pesto... Garicky goodness!

On Tuesday, I harvested garlic scapes for the first time.  Look at these beauties! 

And this one.  I am going to eat you.

More glorious scapes!  It's too bad we only get to eat these once a year!

I harvested about 30 scapes and decided to make a batch of pesto. I followed this recipe from the Washington Post, except I used the entire scape.  In the recipe it said not to use the flower bud part, but I used it anyway.  I used my food processor to do all the chopping and mixing.  Boy did this smell garlicky, I mean like knock you off your feet garlicky!

Surprisingly, it made a large amount of pesto.  About a quart full!

I ended up using a bit of it and put the rest in the freezer.

I cooked up some thin spaghetti and tossed in the pesto with some more parmesan cheese and warmed it all in a skillet.  Oh my goodness, it is SO delicious!  The only thing I'm sorry about is that we are only growing 40 cloves of garlic.  I so want to grow more to get more scapes!  It's incredibly good!  I can't wait to try this pesto on pizza, all the garden bloggers have been recommending that.  The one thing my husband said when he tried the pasta, "We can only eat this at home when we are not going out, this is so garlicky that I'm afraid of what my breath will be like."  hahahahahaha 
What are you eating from your garden right now?  For more Garden to Table ideas, check out Greenish Thumb's blog to see what others are cooking up!

Garlic Scape Pesto in my future.

I noticed last week that the garlic scapes were beginning to grow!  Woot woot!  So excited.  I let them grow longer and waited to harvest them.  This is my first time growing hardneck garlic so I Googled what harvested garlic scapes looked like. They looked about a foot long in length.

Today, I saw that the garlic scapes has grown a lot in a week, and especially since it rained yesterday.  I decided to harvest most of them.  It weighs just about a pound.  I've never made garlic scape pesto before.  I've seen that a lot of garden bloggers make it.  I can't wait to try it!  If you know of a good recipe to recommend, would love to try it!