Hubs and I had ordered some scallops from a groupon we had purchased a while back. These work perfectly for a planned out recipe or a thrown together dish (like the bok choy stir fry I had guest blogged on with Messy Aprons). I guess I normally lean towards thrown together dishes, so hubs and I started doing our thing.While he warmed up the grill and prepped the scallops with some salt and pepper, I put on a pot of water for some angel hair pasta and prepped some zucchini we had from the farmers market. I simply used a vegetable peeler to make long pieces of zucchini into beautiful ribbons to mesh with the pasta.
For a sauce, I added some extra virgin olive oil to a pan and added some garlic and red pepper flakes. At the market I had also picked up some cherry tomatoes, so I cut those in half and added them to the mix to get some more juice to be part of the sauce. I added the zucchini so that it would slightly cook, but only for a minute. A bit of pasta water with the pasta, and there was a good dish happening.Hubs had grilled up the scallops and they turned out perfectly. Adding them on top of the pasta with some fresh basil from our herb garden, we had a delicious and healthy dinner.
Frozen meets fresh - sounds like an easy dinner option to me.