To the heart joined

How do you get there?

I have been successful with my cooking.
Dolores loves to have me cook for us.

The food needs to be served HOT.
The vegetables done just right.
The swordfish or salmon so it can flake apart with a fork.
The beef steak medium, nicely pink in the middle.

I tried a new baked scallop recipe for Valentine's Day. Fortunately, everything came out very nicely done. She lit the candle on the table while I served the scallops, rice pilaf, with green peas and carrots. Elton John's Love Songs CD on for background music.


The recipe should you feel inspired to try it:

1 pound bay or sea scallops, quartered
2 tablespoons dry white wine or sherry
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon white pepper
1/4 cup half and half
1/2 cup bread crumbs, plain
2 tablespoons melted margarine

Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F
Mix wine, lemon juice, salt and pepper in shallow baking dish. Stir in scallops. Add half and half and stir. Mix bread crumbs with melted margarine in a small bowl. Sprinkle scallops with bread crumb mixture. Bake until scallops are done, mixture is bubbly and crumbs are browned (approx. 15 minutes).


Steve's modifications:
I used a mixing bowl to combine the wine, lemon juice, salt and pepper. Then added the scallops to mix them in. I doled out the scallops equally over four individual baking dishes.

We did not have plain bread crumbs so we used the Italian style that we had handy. If we had used plain, we probably would have want to spice it up a bit and the Italian style did that.


A winning combination with a just reward.

I can't guarantee you'll get the same reward but it is worth a try.


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