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Default REVIEW: Trader Joe's Scallops Wrapped in Uncured Bacon with Brown SugarGlaze

This seems to be a new product. I didn't notice
it until recently.

I just ate my fourth box of these guys, and
they're great. They're raw scallops wrapped in
raw bacon with a little skewer holding them
together, then frozen. Sure, I could make this
from scratch, but it's so convenient to just
open the box. You pay for this convenience,
it's a bit pricey at $5.99 for a box of 10,
but otherwise I'd have to buy a whole package
of bacon plus the scallops. I think it's a
good value.

It's not pure meat. The title implies a brown
sugar glave, which is not visible on the raw
product. (No sauce packet is provided.) The
ingrediants list also discloses celery juice
as an ingrediant.

I don't follow the directions on the package,
because my oven is broken. I make them in
my big cast iron pot at moderate heat, turning
to low when they've been adequately browned
on both sides.

My one complaint about this product is that
a lot of liquid is released by the scallops
and bacon during cooking, which then boils off
leaving a considerable amount of fond. I can
see and smell that I'm losing a lot of flavor
when I'm soaking and scrubbing the pot out.
That just seems wrong to me.

I don't know what I should do to either prevent
this loss or recover it. I suppose the
traditional approach would be to make a sauce
out of it, but the original food item is just
fine without a sauce. So I'm not quite sure
what to do. I'm tempted to make a batch of rice
in the same pot, which then would be flavored
by the fond. But usually I'm not in the mood
for rice when I prepare these things, because
I eat all my meat in the morning and if I eat
any carbs that's in the afternoon or evening
to prevent sleep problems.
 
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