These are spring onions, Walla Wallas, to be precise (although I hear that in order to technically qualify as a Walla Walla, an onion has to be grown within a hundred miles of Walla Walla.)
In any case, they're tender young onions with a flavor that's more delicate than the onions that come along later in the year. The garlic is more delicate this time of year as well. I think of it as a soprano flavor, as compared to the bass notes that garlic brings as it matures later in the season.
The spring garlic that I've been getting has mostly looked like green onions, but I saw some today that was starting to form a little bulb on the bottom, with distinct cloves poking out. Cute, cute.
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