Dinner - Easter Dinner

So I feel like I've been MIA this past week; it's been very hectic.  Grad school has been extremely demanding and I took one of four CPA sections yesterday...now that it's over (phew!), hopefully I have more time to devote to more important things...like wine!  

A little catching up to do.  Last Sunday was Easter, and I chose not to go home.  I told my brother to bring me back cake (he did), but I did not have time as I wanted to focus on studying for the CPA.  

I wanted to do something different and special for Easter dinner at school, since I was missing out on the lamb, escargot, triple lemon layer cake, and wine back home.  My SO and I have been watching a lot of Hell's Kitchen lately, and the number one dish that contestants mess up are scallops.  I told myself I was gonna try to cook this seafood; I'd never done that before and they can't be that hard to mess up, right?

So I looked up a few recipes on my favorite website, Fine Cooking, and finally settled on this one.  I went to Kroger and picked up the ingredients - in total, dinner was about $15.  Not bad for a "fancy" dinner for one person!  

Ingredients for dinner

I also picked up a bottle of Pinetti Pinot Grigio 2012 vintage, since I knew that the white wines go best with seafood.  Dinner only took about 40 minutes to pull together.  And let me just say, scallops are NOT as easy as they look!  It would have helped if I'd used a different pan, but back to the dinner...

Trying to be fancy with plating.  Scallops served on a bed of pasta.

I had a glass of wine while I was cooking.  I've had this wine before - it's crisp, clean, fruity but not overly so, and a great sipping wine.  With the scallops, it was a little metallic-y to me, this may have been due to the salty nature of the scallops.  It was a little green, too, which was probably enhanced by the chives/herbs in the scallops' sauce.  Overall, a great pairing!