The other day I decided I wanted to eat something really good for dinner.  So, I started looking through some recipe books...

I found a great one.  It was a side salad of green beans and carrots with a main course of tuna steaks.  For some reason, that just sounded sooo good.  So, I set out to the store to buy some tuna steaks.

Much to my dismay, there was no tuna, at all.  Not even a label for it.  So, if I wanted tuna, I'd have to go to another store.

Laziness won out, however, so I stayed and looked for an alternative.

I settled on scallops.  Now, I have always liked scallops but I have only ever had scallops at restaurants.  Places where they give you four or five scallops at the most with whatever other fare so as to fill up your plate.  By this standard then, the scallops I bought were the family pack.  There were about 15 or so in that pack.

I thought nothing of it.  I wanted something yummy.  So, I called up my brother-in-law, who is a chef, and asked him how to cook scallops.  He told me to use about an oz. of butter in a pan and heat it up.  Then toss the scallops in with whatever seasonings I wanted and to cook them just long enough until they got pearly colored.  He said only a few minutes was enough.

I was so happy that I thought to call him because I had been thinking to saute them in olive oil... that may have worked, I don't know, but they would NOT have tasted as heavenly!

I made my green bean and carrot salad and I served my scallops on the side.

Aside from the fact that my plate was way too big and the scallops look way too small, what my brother-in-law didn't tell me, and yes, I am placing full blame on him, is that scallops although small, are so very very filling!!

You see, no one else in the MommyWizdom household will eat seafood.  Let alone seafood that smelled so fish when being cooked (another thing my brother-in-law forgot to mention!).  So, naturally, I felt a divine duty to polish off all the scallops that came in that container. 

Way too many scallops followed by enough alcohol do not a happy woman make.  So, although I thoroughly enjoyed my meal at the time of consumption, I was pretty much miserable the rest of the night because of it.

So, the next time you go to a fine restaurant where they serve scallops and they only put four or five on your plate.  Understand that they are not being cheap with their scallops, they are merely trying to save you the misery of a massive heart-burn attack!  It was delicious though, and given the opportunity, I would absolutely do it again... except this time I would refrigerate the rest for another day!