Seafood, mostly, dinner!

After three weeks in a row on the road, eating steak, I was craving some seafood.  Now, for me, craving seafood does not always equal healthy ... but I think I did pretty well with both for this meal.

For the first course I did melted cheddar toast points topped with a pan fried clam.

 For the second course I grilled up a bunch of shrimp and calamari tubes with asparagus.  Little salt, pepper and lemon juice is all you need here.

For the next course I lightly poached some oysters in a butter wine sauce.  This is a very simple way off cooking oysters where they still maintain that almost raw consistency, but you don't have to worry about that whole "raw" thing. 

 Shishito peppers, pan fried, tossed with sweet chili sauce and sriracha.  A little messy to eat, but most tasty food is!

Remember when I said this dinner was seafood?  Well, pork belly is basically a seafood, right?  RIGHT?  Even if it's not, I grilled up a couple pieces of pork belly and served them with taco shop guac! 

 Scallops wrapped in bacon?  Nope!  Scallops wrapped in pork belly?  You say it's the same thing, I say potato.  Either way, who cares?  They were grilled and awesome!

For the last course, I stuffed some morel mushrooms with a shrimp, scallop, avocado and red bell pepper.  I then grilled the mushrooms until cooked through and then served them with a bit of the mushroom broth that I had warmed up.

Overall this was not a complex dinner, but man was it tasty.  Give it a try and see for yourself, enjoy!