Prairie fare: Try a new vegetable on your menu this summer

By Julie Garden-Robinson, NDSU Extension food and nutrition specialist “I brought you some scapes,” the graduate student said with a smile as he handed me a plastic bag.

Fortunately, I knew what he meant, or I might have been a bit tentative about opening the bag. I have never been in possession of a bagful of freshly harvested scapes.

I peeked in the bag and saw the long, curly green vegetation. Th…