On Mar 13, 12:53 am, "Bob Terwilliger" >
wrote:
> Jessica wrote:
> > Less than ethical fish mongers and restaurants have been known to pass
> > off skate as scallop, just take a cookie cutter and viola "scallops!"
> > They can't fake that tough little muscle attached to the side of the
> > scallop though. I've never had fake sea scallops, but I've had skate
> > wing bay scallops a couple of times.
>
> Allow me to point out that skate wing can be very tasty indeed.
>
> Bob

It sure can be. I tend to go simple with it, browned butter a few
capers, roasted asparagus and some vino. Usually really cheap too,
some R&R time, a fishing line and sea breeze. Yes, spoiled living a
fifteen minute drive from the coast.

At the risk of sounding like a traitor to my home state of Maine, the
best scallops I have ever had were from Digby, at McKelvie's in
Halifax, Nova Scotia. Maybe it's the colder waters there; hands down
the best scallops I have ever tasted. Better even than diver scallops
raw or cooked that have been out of the ocean for an hour or two
maximum and come to the kitchen in their shells and alive. Not that
diver scallops are bad, just not as sweet and succulent as those gems
from NS.

Jessica