Week 2 Recipe suggestion for your CSA Share

Here's a very tasty way to use your garlic scapes and herbs from this weeks CSA box.

Herbal Garlic Scape Pesto

What you will need:
all measurements are approximate

Food processor
garlic scapes - use the whole scape as they are young and tender.
lemon balm - remove leaves from stem - use about 4 stems or more depending on taste
oregano - remove leaves from stem - use about 4 stems or more depending on taste
olive oil - good quality about 1/4 cup
romano or parmesan or other hard cheese about 1/2 cup
walnuts about 1/2 cup
juice of about one lemon
salt and pepper

Grind the garlic scapes, lemon balm leaves and oregano leaves in food processor first. Add the hard cheese about 1/2 cup ( you can add more or less depending on taste). Then add the walnuts, lemon juice and salt and pepper- you may substitute almonds, pine nuts or a combination.
As you grind the nuts into the mix, drizzle the olive oil into the food processor if you have the type with a hole in the cover - if not, slowly add the olive oil a bit at a time until you get a creamy pesto consistency that you like.
Yum - Enjoy

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