Organic Garlic Scape Pesto

Enjoy your fabulous organic garlic scape pesto with your favorite pasta,French stick or crackers. You can enjoy right away or refrigerate in small mason jars or freeze in bags.

Ingredients:
-1/4 lb Garlic Scapes (about 12)
-1 cup Parmesan cheese (grated)
-Juice of 1 Lemon + zest if desired
-1/2 cup olive oil (divided)
-1/4 cup nuts (walnut, almond, pine)
-Pinch of sea salt
-1/4 cup fresh cut Basil (optional)

Preparation:
Wash and trim garlic scapes. Cut garlic scapes into small pieces.
Place garlic scapes and 1/4 cup olive oil in a food processor and blend.
Chop nuts to small pieces.
Place Parmesan, nuts, lemon juice, zest, remaining olive oil and sea salt in food processor.
Blend until desired consistency.

Enjoy!

Green Garlic Pesto

1/2 pound Green Garlic
1/2 tsp. Pink Salk, plus more to taste
1/3 cup Walnuts
1/4 cup extra-virgin Olive Oil + 1 Tbsp
1/4 cup freshly shredded pecorino cheese or other hard sheep's milk cheese
Preparation:
Trim and discard root ends of green garlic. Finely chop green garlic, rinse thoroughly and pat or spin dry.
In a large frying pan over medium-high heat, cook tbsp oil, green garlic, and 1/2 tsp. salt until soft, about 3 minutes. Let cool to warm room temperature.
In a blender or food processor, pulse pine nuts to chop. Set aside. Add green garlic and process, scraping down sides as necessary, until bright green and smooth. With motor running, drizzle in olive oil. Pulse in reserved pine nuts and cheese. Taste and add more salt if you like.
Makes enough Green Garlic Pesto to coat 1 pound linguineb.

Garlic Scape Pesto

1/2 cup Garlic Scapes, finely chopped
4 T fresh Lemon juice
1/2 cup Olive Oil
3 cups grated parmesan cheese
Salt to taste

Put garlic scapes and lemon juice in bowl of food processor with steel blade, and process until scapes are very finely chopped. With food processor running, add oil through the feed tube and process 2-3 minutes. Remove lid, add half of parmesan cheese and process 2 minutes, then add the rest of cheese and salt and process 2-3 minutes more.

Serve tossed with hot pasta. This would also be good on fish, as a topping for bread, or as a seasoning for cooked rice.