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? :-)

Sigh…where has the year gone?  Seriously?  Thanksgiving is right around the corner and Christmas will be here…tomorrow. 

There are very few things on this planet that I enjoy more than butter.  Mixing herbs, spices or jams right into it and serving a pretty log just makes it that much better.  This is …