Tuesday, March 04, 2008

Scallop Fettuccine

(sigh) There's a million things I could be doing other than this. There's always something to do. (sigh) I have a midterm due soon and I still have a class to watch and a billion and one pages to read before I can even think about attempting it. Professor is really cool and posted it online and it's open book and everything, but still. Open book is not awfully useful with essayish questions and I'm not keen on, well, for lack of a better term, BSing my way through it. That may work in high school and in undergrad, well . . . okay, it did work in high school and undergrad during those desperate times when it was a procrastinator's last resort. But not this time, baby. Uh-uh.

Nevertheless, here I sit with a baby oil-drenched scalp (a precursor to chemically straightening my hair), and I figured I'd share a few photos of my latest culinary creation. I had a taste for seafood. And I love pasta, so I concocted this idea: I would boil some fettuccine, whip up one of those wonderfully seasoned garlic and herb alfredo sauce packets, sautee some scallops, add some crumbled bacon and see what resulted. And, surprisingly, the results were oh, so good:


Mmmm.


Mmmmmmmmmm!

The good thing about cooking for one is that there are ample leftovers--which means tomorrow morning I can dump some in a plastic container, stuff it in my teacherly lunch bag and skip out the door. No frantically searching for something worthy of human consumption to throw in there in my rush out of the door only to realize what a crummy lunch I have when lunch time rolls around and my stomach wants something substantive. Naw. I got me a good lunch tomorrow, youknaaimsayin?

Okay. On to my monthly chemistry project.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

next time, if you like it, add fresh shrimp to your scallops and sautee' its really, really good. also, do you use the alfredo in the glass bottles? if you don't, you should.
love,
girl with successfully defended thesis.

Jewel said...

My, but that does look delicious, Chantell. You know, wayyyyy back when I was single and on my own, I didn't bother to cook for myself much. I ate out or bought take-out mostly or ate at friends. But if there was one thing I would do over it would be that I would have cooked for myself! *smile* I'm pleased to see that you are endeavoring to do just that! Hey, I probably would have added maybe some small broccoli flowerets to your luscious dish or something else green.