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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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