Turn to Growth

Turn to Growth 13 (#4), 12 x 3 x 3 inches, garlic, metal, string, 2014

Garlic!

I have been enjoying cooking with different types of garlic.  Fat Blossom Farm has at least 3-5 kinds of garlic each week and so far these are the 3 I have tried.  Each one tastes slightly different from the other and they all seem sweeter and less spicy than the white garlic purchased at the grocery store.

I sauteed some mushrooms from River Valley Kitchens with some Inchelium Red Garlic and used basil and onions from my CSA share.  The recipe is here.

Black Caps and Garlic Scapes!

Jeff and I picked a bunch of black caps yesterday.  They grow all over in random places and are actually wild blackberries.  I found those pink flowers while we were looking for the berries.  They smell so wonderful!!!

This is what they look like when we find them.  They are ripe once they are dark purple.  I put them on my oatmeal today with some brown sugar!

Garlic scapes are the swirly things growing from the middle of the garlic.  They are actually a flower but you have to cut it off so all the nutrients goes to the garlic bulb and not the flower.  Anyways, garlic scapes taste super good, like garlic but a bit more subtle.  You can chop them up and put them in a salad or saute them.  Laura said she pickled them last year.  They are only around once a year and you will only find them at your local farmers market.  We harvested a ton of them today!

A garlic scape cut from the garlic.

The black caps were all along the outside of the trees.  It is so open and beautiful out here!