Last meal sea scallops with apples, onions, and spicy greens
One day when my beloved mom was with me for a visit, the market had beautiful dry scallops, locally cured applewood bacon, and perfectly fresh honey crisp apples. My mom adored scallops and needed a mother-daughter get-together to give her an excuse to eat just a little bacon. She died 18 months ago of ALS (Lou Gehrig's or motor neurone disease). This was the last meal that I made for her before she lost the ability to chew - at which point I started making pureed soups and custards.
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<br />You get sweet from the scallops, apples and onion, salty from the bacon, sour from lemon and bitter/pepper from the greens, which makes for quite the taste rainbow.
<br />I've never actually measured anything when making this recipe so if you try it and think quantities need adjusting please let me know!
<br />It's easy enough for a weeknight dinner but fancy enough for a dinner party, and it has the added bonus of only using one pan.
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