Quick and easy dinner ideas are the key to getting a meal on the table during summer thanks to busy schedules and rising temperatures. Who has time to spend hours making dinner with kids running around on 90 degree days? That’s why we love anything you can make ahead and serve for dinner. Bonus points if it’s no-cook and seasonal. This simple pesto recipe, which uses garlic scapes instead of traditional basil or cilantro, is all of those things, making it the thing to add to your dinner for boosts of flavor and freshness.
For the uninitiated, garlic scapes are harvested in June and July and are the flowering stems of garlic — as opposed to the bulb we’re used to using in recipes. They have a grassy garlic flavor that is milder than cloves from the bulb when raw, making them a great base for pesto. You should be able to find garlic scapes at the farmers market during the earliest weeks of summer, depending on your region of the United States.
