Hmmm, since

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posted a recipe I’ll do the same!

Yesterday on my way out of Charlottesville I stopped at Anderson’s Carriage House to pick up some steaks.  I grabbed two ribeyes and two New York strips, then on impulse added a pound of bay scallops to my order.

Anderson’s has wonderful meat.  The steaks I just kept in the fridge until just before grilling, then put some olive oil, salt, and pepper on.  YUMMY.

But the scallops – I found a recipe that I wanted to try.

Basically, I put one pound of scallops into a bowl.  I chopped one quarter of a very large extra sweet onion, about a half dozen smallish cloves of garlic, and added a cup of Dogfish Head 60 Minute IPA to the bowl.  I then dumped in some crushed red pepper flakes and black pepper, stirred it all up, and let it sit for a few hours in the fridge.

After it had marinated, I put the scallops on skewers and grilled them up.

Delicious.

Tonight we’ve got a buffalo roast going in the crock pot which I’m sure will be darn nice.  I’ve decided thanks to leg cramps and my sprained wrist that I’ll be taking a few days off from the gym; that and the Steelers game tonight might mean a chance to start experimenting with our “winter” drink.

Oh, and Mixology Monday is coming up – next week, I believe, which means I need to come up with a gin drink.  At a bar in Charlottesville I had a drink called the “Parliament”:
Hendrick’s Gin
Cointreau
Lime
Basil
Simple Syrup

I thought about recreating it for the Mixology Monday but honestly I’m a bit hesitant about the basil aspect to it.

I’ve about burned myself out on Satan’s Whiskers, so I may do some martini experimentation, though I’m guessing that’ll be a popular one.