Shell pasta with garlic scape pesto, bacon, and black eyed peas

Pasta and macaroni Italian cuisine
shell pasta with garlic scape pesto, bacon, and black eyed peas

I think the garlic scapes are finally gone, we didn't get any last week and the few precious ones still in the fridge on their way out. We've found some pretty unusual and delicious things to do with these vegetables (are they considered vegetables?), but seems like the typical go-to recipe for them is garlic scape pesto. This is the first and only time we actually made it, and even then it was more of a vehicle for the pasta and other ingredients than the star of the show. But I guess when you throw in tasty things like black eyed peas and bacon it's easy to let something like the pesto get overshadowed. Ok, I lied. Just a little. We actually made this recipe in early June, with one of our first bunches of garlic scapes. We've been cooking so many good things lately I can barely keep up with the posting. And unfortunately, the poor helpless victims of that overload are the meals we might consider less exiting. Like the pastas, who often get pushed to back of the blogging queue in

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