Picked Scapes

My post box at the bottom of the shooting track that I live on can sometimes bear the most wonderful gifts and one of them is scapes, which I order from The Really Garlicky Company. Scapes are the stalks that grow from the bulb of the hardneck garlic plants and can be harvested to use in a variety ways. They arrive in a bright green tangled mass in a cardboard box and I pound them into pesto, add them to salads, stir-fries and omelettes, blanch them to use