If there's one thing that my friend Alison taught me is that scallops are gifts from the sea, to be honoured and worshiped above all else. I took that small piece of knowledge with me when I visited Digby, Nova Scotia for the first time and found it to hold true...I had Digby Scallops for dinner every night while I was there and have ever since been obsessed with those plump little morsels of flesh.
I marinate them in a chardonnay for a few hours just to get rid of that 'fishy' smell that turns many (myself included) off of seafood. Then comes the fun part...cooking them!Other than wrapping them in prosciutto my favourite way to have them is and old one...saute them in a wee bit of butter with some fresh garlic. It works out well every time!
I will say though that this time it almost seemed that they had been injected with water as they shrunk in size tremendously by the time they were done. I was a little bit disappointed by that but they still tasted like little bites of heaven!!
I need to win the lottery so I can eat like this all the time...
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