Sunday, June 09, 2013

Garlic Scape Fettucine


Thursday 6 June
Last year was our first growing the Archie Christopherson Memorial garlic, which produced our first garlic scapes.  This year we're doing it again (so is Dora, as you see here), and getting cannier about it. 

For example, on last year's post, you could see that we had let the scapes grow until they were almost straight.  No wonder we found them mostly tough!  This year we cut them when they had only curled once, and they were all tender except for the dark green tips.    
In the robot-coupe we ground up ten scapes, then added about 1/3 cup raw pistachios, then enough oil to compound and meld them, and finally about 3/4 cup grated romano.   

About half of the amount was enough to sauce two servings of fettucine, and it was (and gave us) a garlic-laden breath of spring.

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