We have this about once, maybe twice a year.
This time of year the garlic sends up scapes. Scapes are the stalks that try to send up a flower on a garlic plant - it tastes like garlic, really really good garlic, but it has to be cut off so the plant can focus its energy on producing the bulb. What do you do with a waste product that tastes like really really good garlic? Stuff it up a chicken's butt, of course!
If family is coming we cut all the scapes at once and stuff a whole chicken with scapes and onions fresh out of the garden. When it' baking the whole house smells like love and garlic!
When it's just MrsWD and we cut a batch of scapes and pull some onions and slow roast them in a tightly covered dish in the oven with a chicken breast. When the chicken hits 150 degrees I pull it out and sear it in a pan with some very hot olive oil. It's a very tasty annual treat, and the once-a-year aspect makes it a special meal.
Chicken, onion, and pieces of scape stalks ready for the oven.
A once-a-year treat, garlic chicken from the garden.