Pork roast as served for a buffet:  Take a nice, even shaped pork roast.  With a sharp, narrow bladed knife, make deep slits into the roast, slightly twisting the knife and inserting a long sliver of garlic.  Spice with marjoram, salt, pepper and about a cup of water.  Roast at 350F till it is well done and juices are flowing.  Your kitchen should smell heavenly.  In a large frying pan, heat some olive oil (any oil will do, I like olive) and gently put in a few garlic scapes.  Be careful, have a lid ready because it spits!  Cover with the lid and fry for a second or two.  Remove from heat (so it will not spit so much), turn the garlic scapes over, return to heat and fry for another few seconds.  Remove from heat, put scapes on a plate to cool a bit till you can handle them.  Do not overcook, scapes should be able to "stand up" and hold their shape.  Place around serving platter.  Tell your guests to eat the garlic scapes, they are tender and flavourful.  I also put some sage for decoration and from last season, bottled sweet/sour crab apples.

I served a similar pork roast at a "Canadiana Dinner" when I made up the plates for my guests.  The tender snow peas lend themselves for an unusual Inukshuk.  Scalloped potatoes, sweet/sour crab apples completed the plate.

The crab apples add a wonderful colour and flavour to pork.  I eat these whole, yes, seeds and all, except the stems.  Stay tuned for the recipe later in the year, when they are in season.  You'll be surprised how easy it is!

This is the close-up of a slice of pork roast.  You can see the garlic baked deep inside.  Just before serving, I made a slit in the top of the slice of pork and inserted a garlic scape.  Gives height and a different look to your presentation.

This is how the entire plate was presented.  Pork roast, snow peas Inukshuk, scalloped potatoes and a slice of bread dipped into the drippings.  Hope this inspires some of you to use the fabulous garlic scapes.  The season is just beginning, so we have a great feast to look forward to.  Enjoy!