I'll give up one of my simple yet delicious dinner recipes
 

Dinner for two.
1 and 1/2 lbs of sea scallops.
Take a 1/4 stick of butter and melt it in a frying pan, sprinkle a few pinches of crushed red pepper. Add scallops, add a big splash of white wine and let the scallops cook. Turn each scallop over so they cook evenly. Right before they're done, sprinkle more crushed red pepper directly over the scallops, then gently lay slices of Swiss cheese over the scallops, turn off heat and cover with a lid for 1 minute.
Serve.

I had mine tonight with an Henri Bonneau chateauneuf du pape which is on the light side.
Delicious and fool proof

Damn, this made me really hungry :)

I ate my neighbor's liver with fava beans and a nice Chianti.

Chianti Classico!

If you ever go to Costco, they sell huge scallops for dirt cheap. Need a big appetite or a big freezer though. Costco seems odd, but I haven't found scallops that could compare to theirs outside of a restaurant.

I'd be worried about overcooking them - sounds tasty as the sweetness of a good swiss and the scallop go well - I hope the wine you added was good lol - and the spice, nice touch ;)

Sounds dam good! Nice recipe :thumbsup

Swiss is my fav too.

Actually any cheese is my favorite :)

Gotta love perfect scallops

you will get better texture if you let the scallops fry a bit first on both sides before adding the wine.

for a recipe with balls.

high heat oil like peanut , get hot.. toss in scallops, brown, add chili sauce, brown sugar, minced garlic, splash of brandy , simmer a sec. bam..

couple chicken breasts, shredded
can of cream of chicken soup
generous amount of diced peppers of all hot kinds
a red onion diced
can of rotel
can of whole tomatos
big hand full of shredded cheese
Mix the whole thing up in a casserole pan and cook at 350 for 45 minutes
Serve while watching a movie with tortilla chips like dip

You mean the stingray that was punched out with a round cookie cutter and passed off as scallops? They actually taste pretty good.

I almost want to have dinner with you... you are not as bad as they say you are ;)

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Beringer zinfandel boy, you just couldn't handle the "first class" and had to brag? Stop trying, you washed out rug. Train left long time ago. :1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh
Those that got on don't post here and argue with people half their age. Enjoy the dust loner. :1orglaugh

what do you really want to say?

One large fillet of SeaBass - Lightly coat large tinfoil with olive oil mixed with white truffle oil. Season the bass lightly with seasalt and pepper - lay some slices of lemon on top of fillet, top it with butter slices and estragon. Close tinfoil to a "bagshape". Cook on 180C. for 55 minutes - Serve with garlic mashed potatoes and crispy steamed asparagus. Enjoy.

Drive-thru at Long John Silver's, 2-piece Whitefish Fillet Combo with hush puppies. A swig of two buck chuck. Bam!

Got to agree with smokey, scallops need very high heat at least for initial quick searing, then you can turn it way down (to compensate for the initial flash frying) and continue with the rest of the recipe whilst trying to keep them tender.
I tend to use them as an entree (appetiser) rather than a main.. simply flash seared with a little seasoning and on a scallop sized cylinder of pinenut infused mash or maybe with an artichoke cream.

this thread is like GFY Iron Chef! lol

Uh, yeah.
Here's a clue for you, little fella. Don't believe the hype. Just like you, the people no longer here washed out of the business. No one "retired"
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Where can you get two buck chuck? We have 3 buck chuck in St. Louis at Trader Joes.

Thats what happens when something gets popular.
50% price increase.:winkwink:

you lost me at adding the swiss cheese part

even without the other shit you mentioned, you had me at scallops

*cough* Lensman. *cough*

Read this thread last night and it made my mouth water. Went out this morning bought some scallops and just had the best lunch while watching football in the kitchen. Wonderful! Thanks!

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Joe isn't retired. he just no longer works here.

cough cough.:winkwink:

sweet!

gfy needs a cooking section. haha

I think you did not look at your label right ... :

http://www.ammiteir.com/wp-content/u...ofingLabel.jpg

that is more like it :thumbsup

I just had cold corn chowder lemon bisque with peanuts and dill, an arugala ceaser salad and swordfish meatloaf with kiwi and mango mustard, complimented by an '95 Sauvignon blanc which I drank from a thin-stemmed steuben wine glass. I charged this all on my platinum American express card. I'm wearing a glen-plaid wool-crepe suit from Krizia Uomo, a BrooksBrothers shirt, a tie from Adirondack and shoes by Cole-Haan. Now i'm just standing here admiring my black 2011 BMW320i. Repeat after me: I'm successful, i'm satisfied with my life. I'm successful, i'm satisfied with my life.

I thought I was reading American Psycho for a second...

I don't know what you're talking about. I have to go return some video tapes.

My mistake...say you like Huey Lewis and the News?

Funny you should ask, they really didn't come into their own, commercially or artistically, until their 1983 smash, Sports. Though their roots were visible (blues,Memphis soul, country) on Huey Lewis and the News they seemed a little too willing to cash in on the late seventies/early eighties taste for New Wave, and the album - though it's still a smashing debut -seems a little too stark, too punk. Examples of this being the drumming on the first single, "Some of My Lies Are True (Sooner orLater)," and the fake handclaps on "Don't Make Me Do It" as well as the organ on "Taking a Walk." Even though it was a little bit strained, their peppy boy-wants-girl lyrics and the energy with which Lewis, as a lead singer, instilled all the songs were refreshing. Having a great lead guitarist like Chris Hayes (who also sharesvocals) doesn't hurt either. Hayes' solos are as original and unrehearsed as any in rock. Yet the keyboardist, Sean Hopper,seemed too intent on playing the organ a little too mechanically(though his piano playing on the second half of the album getsbetter) and Bill Gibson's drumming was too muted to have much impact. The songwriting also didn't mature until much later, thoughmany of the catchy songs had hints of longing and regret and dread("Stop Trying" is just one example).

Though the boys hail from San Francisco and they share some similarities with their Southern California counterparts, the Beach Boys (gorgeous harmonies, sophisticated vocalizing, beautiful melodies?they even posed with a surfboard on the cover of the debut album), they also carried with them some of the bleakness and nihilism of the (thankfully now forgotten) ?punk rock? scene of Los Angeles at the time. Talk about your Angry Young Man!?listen to Huey on ?Who Cares,? ?Stop Trying,? ?Don?t Even Tell Me That You Love Me,? ?Trouble in Paradise? (the titles say it all). Huey hits his notes like an embittered survivor and the band often sounds as angry as performers like the Clash or Billy Joel or Blondie. No one should forget that we have Elvis Costello to thank for discovering Huey in the first place. Huey played harmonica on Costello?s second record, the thin, vapid My Aim Was You. Lewis has some of Costello?s supposed bitterness, though Huey has a more bitter, cynical sense of humor. Elvis might think that intellectual wordplay is as important as having a good time and having one?s cynicism tempered by good spirits, but I wonder what he thinks about Lewis selling so many more records than he?

Things looked up for Huey and the boys on the second album, 1982?s Picture This, which yielded two semihits, ?Workin? for a Livin?? and ?Do You Believe in Love,? and the fact that this coincided with the advent of video (there was one made for both songs) undoubtedly helped sales. The sound, though still tinged with New Wave trappings, seemed more roots-rock than the previous album, which might have something to do with the fact that Bob Clearmountain mixed the record or that Huey Lewis and the News took over the producing reins. Their songwriting grew more sophisticated and the group wasn?t afraid to quietly explore other genres?notably reggae (?Tell Her a Little Lie?) and ballads (?Hope You Love Me Like You Say? and ?Is It Me??). But for all its power-pop glory, the sound and the band seem, gratefully, less rebellious, less angry on this record (though the blue-collar bitterness of ?Workin? for a Livin?? seems like an outtake from the earlier album). They seem more concerned with personal relationships?four of the album?s ten songs have the word ?love? in their title?rather than strutting around as young nihilists, and the mellow good-times feel of the record is a surprising, infectious change.


The band is playing better than it last did and the Tower of Power horns give the record a more open, warmer sound. The album hits its peak with the back-to-back one-two punch of ?Workin? for a Livin?? and ?Do You Believe in Love,? which is the best song on the album and is essentially about the singer asking a girl he?s met while ?looking for someone to meet? if she ?believes in love.? The fact that the song never resolves the question (we never find out what the girl says) gives it an added complexity that wasn?t apparent on the group?s debut. Also on ?Do You Believe in Love? is a terrific sax solo by Johnny Colla (the guy gives Clarence Clemons a run for his money), who, like Chris Hayes on lead guitar and Sean Hopper on keyboards, has by now become an invaluable asset to the band (the sax solo on the ballad ?Is It Me?? is even stronger). Huey?s voice sounds more searching, less raspy, yet plaintive, especially on ?The Only One,? which is a touching song about what happens to our mentors and where they end up (Bill Gibson?s drumming is especially vital to this track). Though the album should have ended on that powerful note, it ends instead with ?Buzz Buzz Buzz,? a throwaway blues number that doesn?t make much sense compared to what preceded it, but in its own joky way it amuses and the Tower of Power horns are in excellent form.

There are no such mistakes made on the band?s third album and flawless masterpiece, Sports (Chrysalis). Every song has the potential to be a huge hit and most of them were. It made the band rock ?n? roll icons. Gone totally is the bad-boy image, and a new frat-guy sweetness takes over (they even have the chance to say ?ass? in one song and choose to bleep it instead). The whole album has a clear, crisp sound and a new sheen of consummate professionalism that gives the songs on the album a big boost. And the wacky, original videos made to sell the record (?Heart and Soul,? ?The Heart of Rock ?n? Roll,? ?If This Is It,? ?Bad Is Bad,? ?I Want a New Drug?) made them superstars on MTV.


Produced by the band, Sports opens with what will probably become their signature song, ?The Heart of Rock ?n Roll,? a loving ode to rock ?n? roll all over the United States. It?s followed by ?Heart and Soul,? their first big single, which is a trademark Lewis song (though it?s written by outsiders Michael Chapman and Nicky Chinn) and the tune that firmly and forever established them as the premier rock band in the country for the 1980s. If the lyrics aren?t quite up to par with other songs, most of them are more than serviceable and the whole thing is a jaunty enterprise about what a mistake one-night stands are (a message the earlier, rowdier Huey would never have made). ?Bad Is Bad,? written solely by Lewis, is the bluesiest song the band had recorded up to this point and Mario Cipollina?s bass playing gets to shine on it, but it?s really Huey?s harmonica solos that give it an edge. ?I Want a New Drug,? with its killer guitar riff (courtesy of Chris Hayes), is the album?s centerpiece?not only is it the greatest antidrug song ever written, it?s also a personal statement about how the band has grown up, shucked off their bad-boy image and learned to become more adult. Hayes? solo on it is incredible and the drum machine used, but not credited, gives not only ?I Want a New Drug? but most of the album a more consistent backbeat than any of the previous albums?even though Bill Gibson is still a welcome presence.

The rest of the album whizzes by flawlessly?side two opens with their most searing statement yet: ?Walking on a Thin Line,? and no one, not even Bruce Springsteen, has written as devastatingly about the plight of the Vietnam vet in modern society. This song, though written by outsiders, shows a social awareness that was new to the band and proved to anyone who ever doubted it that the band, apart from its blues background, had a heart. And again in ?Finally Found a Home? the band proclaims its newfound sophistication with this paean to growing up. And though at the same time it?s about shedding their rebel image, it?s also about how they ?found themselves? in the passion and energy of rock ?n? roll. In fact the song works on so many levels it?s almost too complex for the album to carry, though it never loses its beat and it still has Sean Hopper?s ringing keyboards, which make it danceable. ?If This Is It? is the album?s one ballad, but it?s not downbeat. It?s a plea for a lover to tell another lover if they want to carry on with the relationship, and the way Huey sings it (arguably the most superb vocal on the album), it becomes instilled with hope. Again, this song?as with the rest of the album?isn?t about chasing or longing after girls, it?s about dealing with relationships. ?Crack Me Up? is the album?s only hint at a throwback to the band?s New Wave days and it?s minor but amusing, though its antidrinking, antidrug, pro-growing-up statement isn?t.

And as a lovely ending to an altogether remarkable album, the band does a version of ?Honky Tonk Blues? (another song written by someone not in the band, named Hank Williams), and even though it?s a very different type of song, you can feel its presence throughout the rest of the album. For all its professional sheen, the album has the integrity of honky-tonk blues. (Aside: During this period Huey also recorded two songs for the movie Back to the Future, which both went Number One, ?The Power of Love? and ?Back in Time,? delightful extras, not footnotes, in what has been shaping up into a legendary career.) What to say to Sports dissenters in the long run? Nine million people can?t be wrong.

Their early work was a little too new wave for my tastes, but when Sports came out in 83, I think they really came into their own.

edit: ok Shotsie has overdone it.

shotsie has good taste in books. :thumbsup

They did a pretty good job singing the National Anthem before one of the playoff games yesterday.

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just had something similar to this for dinner:

http://sp.life123.com/bm.pix/chicken...y.s600x600.jpg

Sauteing them in garlic butter over a char broiler is nice too, but I'll definitely try them your way as well. I like the cheese melt at the end.

Fool proof? Never underestimate the idiocracy. If at least one person doesn't come back having flambe'd their mommy's kitchen I'll be very surprised.

dude, I make about 7 things well.
Trust me, if I say it's fool proof, it is. :)

Tonight is garlic clams over linguini with a bottle of '02 insignia.

Our dinner tonight is Chicken with mushrooms and shallots in a Marsala cream sauce over rigatoni with a bottle of 04' Dal Forno Romano Amarone della Valpolicella.

Dude, remember which board you're posting on. :winkwink:


For me tonight it's spicey southern fried chicken (fried, then baked in the oven), mushroom and garlic mash potatoes, a mix of steamed broccoli, cauliflower and carrots with a creamy beef & mushroom sauce,

and to drink: mulled sparkling apple cider and vodka (trust me when I say it's incredibly good)

May the feast be with you. :D

in this case, you should never underestimate yourself.

I'll give it a try.

throw that on a bed of egg noodles and make some dinner rolls :2 cents:

some good seafood ideas guys.

How do you know when the scallops are ready? I have a tough time figuring that out. I can sear them but they'll cook like that forever until they dry out it seems.

I made some home made cod cakes last night. Some baked and some fried, the baked ones ended up flavourless and the fried ones tasted perfect, go figure.

Every time I think of scallops, I think of Gordon Ramsey screaming at someone because they're not done to his standards. Sounds good anyway.

The trick is to put them in the frying pan (griddle) like the hours of a clock. start at 12 and work round. turn them in that order, take them off in that order.