Maker's Table

My Brilliant Pepper

I grew this pepper. I ate this pepper.

Fresh Garlic

Today, the garlic was ready to be pulled. It made a big pile:

Which I pared down to a smaller pile:

Which is now drying on my windowsill.

Ah, July.

Garlic Scapes

Garlic scapes are garlic's flower buds. The scape emerges, curled and elastic, from the center of the garlic plant in late June. Each is a tiny, bursting, garlic miracle. They're great chopped in salads, or lightly sautéed in butter or fruity oil and tossed with pasta. I hear they make a great pesto, but I'm not sure I'll get there. They're so wonderful fresh, just as they are, that I may just eat all two hundred of them just like this.