Fun with scallops

[Brad Olson]

Last month one of the stores was running a special on small scallops, so I picked some up to grill. Unfortunately they were wet-pack instead of dry-pack, but for about $7/lb I knew that's what I'd be getting.

They can be a pain to skewer but the job's easier if the skewers stand upright and the scallops are pushed down.

My first thought was to wrap them with bacon but I ditched that plan once I saw how many I had. Instead, I came up with the idea of giving them a bacon "blanket" on one side.

The scallops cooked mostly bacon-side-down, with a quick finish on the exposed side to pick up a little bit of color. Getting some nice browning on wet-pack scallops can be difficult, so I didn't even try.

Overall they weren't too bad and the bacon added some flavor, but I think from now on I'll try to stick with dry-pack scallops even though they're often pricier...buddy, can you spare a dime?

 

[CaseT]

Looks tasty. I wont buy scallops anymore. What we get here aren't good. We don't even have a dedicated Fish Market, which is crazy for a town of 100,000, and an outlying area of another 100,000. So iff I'm going to spurge on seafood it'll be dungeness crab. Which the season just opened!

 

[Brad Olson]

Wow, that sucks, and it's not like you're ridiculously far from the ocean, either! But there's nothing wrong with crab...

 

[JKalchik]

I'll agree with Case, it pays to be picky about a fish market. Oddly enough, Costco *IS* one of the few places that I'll buy unfrozen seafood. If I can't smell the counter, that's usually a good sign.

When I was still living outside of Chicago, I always some one of the big metro vendor's trucks on the highway, & decided to check out their storefront. I knew that it was not going to be a positive experience when it stunk before I even opened the outer door.