Wait, wait... "garlic scapes?" How do you spell that?

Well, last week in the farm share we got a lot of really normal produce. Like, carrots. And broccoli. And excuse me, but I was looking for a challenge! Luckily there was one newcomer to the CSA rotation: garlic scapes! Without a lot of useless drivel, here's what we did with our food.

First, a delicious salad.

That would be spring mix and [roasted] beets from the CSA, blackberries and walnuts from the store, and an impromptu homemade balsamic. (For anyone who likes salad, once you get the ratio of oil-to-vinegar down for a few basic dressing recipes, you can whip up just about anything delicious in a matter of seconds, and you'll never buy bottled dressing again. Time to save your jam jars!)

After this delectable salad, which will turn any beet-hater into a beet-worshiper, we ate a bunch of grilled vegetables. In foil packets, we grilled broccoli, carrots, and garlic scapes sprayed with olive oil; on the upper-rack of the grill, we put four quarters of a head of cabbage. We paired the veggies with some random Russian rice pilaf with *very* roughly translated directions and had a delicious and filling meal.

This was one of those meals that anyone could prepare--it would be next to impossible to ruin, even for the most inept. All it took was cutting and heating. But... YUM!