Scallops.

[Bbbananas]

Love 'em, loathe 'em?

(I mean scallops of the fish variety, not the fried sliced potato variety - as we call them in t'Fens).

I am having some tonight, in cream & chilli. Yum. Aren't they expensive though? Quite shocking.

[LoftyLottie]

love them, love them, love them. Especially freshly caught and boiled and served with a knob of butter. They don't taste the same once they have been out of the sea for more than an hour or two.

[Bbbananas]

I've had these since Friday.... may as well not bother then?!

[ummmm]

I love them as well.

[LoftyLottie]

Still nice, but nothing like completely fresh ones. Anyway you won't taste them with chilli!! :o)

[Sqad]

Coquille Saint-Jacques as we upper class would describe the dish....wonderful, slips easily off the tongue.

[askyourgran]

I love scallops but they are too expensive, maybe for a special occasion, The last lot I had were frozen, which tends to take taste out of them, but they were lovely fried in butter and served with cream.

[LoftyLottie]

Well us lower classes just calls 'em scallops Sqad! Do you agree they taste different when completely fresh?

[Bbbananas]

Sqad - I knew that, but I didn't want to confuse the plebs.... didn't want them to think I was boasting or talking about a french sex toy....

[Sqad]

lofty...I do indeed.

[Sqad]

salla........LOL.....COCKille........LOL

[LoftyLottie]

I remember years ago my brother in law, a seafaring man coming home with a bucket of them and just throwing them in a cauldron of boiling water in their shells. We ate them with just fresh bread - we made total pigs of ourselves! I have never tasted anything so good!!

[askyourgran]

Well I'm glad you've cleared that up Salla, they could easily have been what sqad says slipping of the tongue and all that.

Of course they are better fresh but when you live inland you have to make the best of things lofty.

[LoftyLottie]

I agree Gran. But when I see the price, I don't think they are worth it, because they just aren't special enough when they are not fresh. Fortunately, I don't live too far from the sea so we get pretty good fish round here generally. Haven't had scallops for a long while though.

Local recipe, but I don't like Black Pudding:

http://www.gastronomydomine.com/?p=115