Last Thursday I headed to the farmers market at work in hopes for fresh peaches. No peaches were to be found, but they had a bucket of beautiful garlic scapes. I've never seen them for sale before so how could I pass up this opportunity! The farm even provided me with a recipe! I bought 1/2 lb of garlic scapes and was excited to try making garlic scapes pesto. I was imagining it to be garlicy, but not overwhelmingly so. I was very very wrong. I tasted the pesto as I was making it and it tasted like pure garlic!! I quickly emptied out my fridge's basil collection and added that to the pesto to try and diffuse the flavor. It helped, but only mildly. We ate it over pasta, but I would not recommend it. Tonight i'm going to try it again since we have so much leftovers ----i'll add more basil this time i guess.
Below is the recipe I dont recommend
1/2 lb garlic scapes (buds cut off)
1 c oil
2 c Parmesan cheese
blend in food processor
