Scapes on a Plate!!!!

I've had enough of these motherf*ckin' scapes on this motherf*ckin' plate!!!!!



Hahaha. Just kidding. I dream of being on a plane overtaken with garlic scapes and the only way out alive is to eat them all. If a baby's life depends on me finishing this jar, I'd be giving its frantic mother a reassuring wink right about now that says don't worry ma'am, we're all going to be ok.

Garlic scapes are the plant that shoot out of the garlic bulb, which is really good to know since I've been telling people it's the "vine that garlic grows on"...shows how much I know. But maybe you'll forgive me, because I've never grown garlic and every time I've taken this jar of scapes out, no one ELSE knows what they are either. I encountered garlic scapes for the first time at the 2006 International Pickle Festival where there was a woman with a gallon jar of them, all tangled up, pulling them out, cutting them up and sharing then with anyone who passed by but it was 3 years later before I had my own jar to feast on (A Feast of Scapes?).

This jar, which is the only jar of scapes I've ever had, was given to me by none other than Pickle Girl when we met to discuss our joint participation in the 2009 International Pickle Festival. We had a fabulous day but I'm sad to say that the "pickle universe" hasn't seen much of Pickle Girl since then! The scapes themselves have a slight garlicky flavor (always a good thing) but these from Pickle Girl have a delicious brine. Her recipe is posted on her blog here so she's thrown us all a rescue line to save ourselves from a lack of pickled garlic scapes and for that we should be grateful.



But we sure do miss you Pickle Girl! Power to the Pickle!!