Our of the Ordinary Dinner

You’ve seen my menu plans for years. You know it’s meat, rice or potatoes and a veggie for us. We were in Aldi the other day and they had mussels – they had no shells. I’m not sure if that means they were peeled or shelled but it was just the meat. Vince loves mussels. I do not. They also had bay scallops on sale. I prefer sea scallops but we got the sea scallops. He had sent me a recipe the other day he wanted me to try. It’s Pan Seared Scallops with Brown Butter Beer Sauce. He wanted me to fix the mussels too so I found this recipe – Portuguese Mussels, so I figured I’d make that too.

I made a chickpea salad with canned chickpeas, lemon juice, olive oil, parsley, Italian herbs, salt and pepper. It was all good. I liked the salad best. I usually put feta cheese and fresh basil in that salad. Didn’t have those two things but it was still good.

We were sitting at the table. That’s my food in the picture. Vince is sitting right next to me at the table. He said “Here, taste this!” I’m thinking . . he has exactly what I have. What does he want me to taste? I guess I was staring at him trying to grasp what he was thinking. He comes at me with a big fork full of the mussels. I said “What’s different about yours than what I have right here?” He started laughing and said “Oh, I knew you didn’t like them so I figured you didn’t get any.”

That, my friends, is how I can so easily bring all my cross stitching supplies into the house, right past him. 🙂

The mussels recipe was delicious – the sauce mainly. I think it would be much better with shrimp. The sauce for the scallops was blah and the sea scallops, to me, don’t have a lot of flavor.