Welcome to an easy appetizer, served at our Five Ingredient Dinner Party! The key here is the garlic butter (IMHO), but you can decide for yourself. Try adding a good dose of freshly cracked pepper (or use pepper-crusted bacon). And I haven’t tried it, but chipotle and brown sugar bacon would be pretty amazing! But then how can you go wrong with bacon, scallops, butter and garlic? :-)

As promised, here’s another recipe from the Buitoni Pasta Party. This was one of the faves – enjoy!

Recipe #3 – and final submission – for the Saucy Mama Extraordinary Condiment Contest.
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First, the excuse apology:  I’m sorry, I really am.  I know you must be tired of hearing about my love affair with mexican food.   But, since this is the week of Cinco de Mayo …

If you’re a regular noodle reader, you already know that the kind folks at Sabra sent a nice big package filled with hummus right to my doorstep!  I won’t bore you with a recap, but …