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Sometimes going out to dinner or lunch can add up and get pricey, especially if you do it all the time. One way to balance out food expenses is to cook up a meal for two at home. Besides finding and eating out at new spots, I have a passion for cooking. The satisfaction of making a meal for others is a great feeling.

This leads me to post up SpotsForDates.com’s first ever “Home Cooking” recipe. You can really impress your date by cooking for them. We’ll try to post up recipes time to time. To start it off, here is my recipe for a quick Bacon Scallops with Butter Sauce.

Ingredients
6-8 Sea Scallops
Bacon
Butter
White Wine
Half a Lemon
Olive Oil
Salt
Pepper
Tooth Picks

Steps
Your first want to get a frying pan out because you’ll need to cook the bacon. Coat your pan up with some olive oil. Fry the same amount of bacon strips with the amount of scallops you have. Do not overcook the bacon to where it’s super crispy. Set the bacon strips aside for now.

Next, season the scallops with salt and pepper. Just sprinkle a little bit of each on both sides of the scallops. Then, grab another frying pan. Take about 2 Tbsp. of butter and let it simmer in a medium to high heat. You can add the white wine into the butter now. I just add a splash of wine. Squeeze in some lemon after that. Once you have that going, take your scallops and let them cook in the butter for about 3-4 minutes on each side.

After you have the scallops done, it’s time to plate the dish. Take the bacon strips that you’ve cooked and cut them in half. Top your scallops with the bacon and hold them in place with a tooth pick. You can take the butter that you’ve cooked the scallops in and take spoonfuls to top off the scallops. Just use it as a sauce for the dish.

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