Salvaging a Disaster

Well tonight I thought we were going to have bay scallops since we picked up two 4 oz frozen packages on our last trip to Whole Foods. When I opened the first package I discovered two things: one, they were cut up sea scallops some pieces a quarter the size of a bay scallop; and two, they were from China!

To salvage the dinner I washed them in milk, and rolled them in homemade bread crumbs heavily seasoned. I placed them in a heavily buttered baking dish and sprinkle them with smoked paprika. Then baked them in a 450F oven for 10 minutes. Served them with pilaf cooked in veggie stock, and lemony salad.

Oh yes, we killed our last '09 Knapp Finger Lakes Riesling with it. Excellent!

[Jenise]

Way to go, Carl. But gosh, Chinese scallops no less. Is there no end to it?

My partner and I have taken to avoiding foods that come from China. In their newfound capitalist fervor they seem to be ignoring rules of safety. I'm not interested in becoming a statistic because they harvest the wrong species of pignoli (or whatever).

My partner and I have taken to avoiding foods that come from China. In their newfound capitalist fervor they seem to be ignoring rules of safety. I'm not interested in becoming a statistic because they harvest the wrong species of pignoli (or whatever).

I avoid all the foods imported from China also. I just don't trust the Chinese industry. Interesting to note that quite a bit of the garlic sold in the US is from China. My local store(Cub franchise, Cub is a division of Super Value.) did not post the location on their signs until I called them on it. As soon as they did they switched to US produced garlic. I asked one of the produce guys about it because it wasn't labeled again and I wanted to make certain it was not Chinese produced. (When produced in US it is not required to have the origin listed.) He said as soon as they posted "China" it's sales were greatly diminished.

I normally do not buy bay scallops but for some reason I had a lb of them sitting in the frig yesterday with no thought in mind as to what to do with them. I used your approach and it worked very well with a nice bottle of pinot gris.

Tim