{"id":1930,"date":"2012-09-20T08:20:51","date_gmt":"2012-09-20T14:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/?p=1930"},"modified":"2012-09-20T08:29:41","modified_gmt":"2012-09-20T14:29:41","slug":"seared-scallops-and-herb-butter-sauce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/?p=1930","title":{"rendered":"Seared Scallops and Herb Butter Sauce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/20120920-092047.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/20120920-092047.jpg\" alt=\"20120920-092047.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>These scallops (recipe <a href=\"http:\/\/m.myrecipes.com\/details\/searchR.rbml?id=50400000121413.xml&#038;bcat=search&#038;cat=Search%20Result&#038;fl=recipe\/seared-scallops-herb-butter-sauce-50400000121413\/\">here<\/a>) were really easy and tasty.  I don&#8217;t know why, though, the recipe says to use a separate saucepan to make the sauce.  I would take advantage of all of the crusty caramelizing in the shallot pan and just make the sauce in there.  I suppose since this sauce is kind of an ersatz beurre blanc, they were trying to keep it lightly-colored and delicate, but I would always fall on the side of incorporating more flavor (and washing less pots and pans!)  The side dishes I made with this were easy (Farfalle with pesto and toasted pine nuts and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/?p=391\">saut\u00e9ed zucchini<\/a>), but they did make the plate look very white and green.  I wish I had added some roasted red pepper strips or cherry tomato halves to the pasta or some yellow squash to the zucchini (or both) just for a little color variety.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These scallops (recipe here) were really easy and tasty. I don&#8217;t know why, though, the recipe says to use a separate saucepan to make the sauce. I would take advantage of all of the crusty caramelizing in the shallot pan and just make the sauce in there. I suppose since this sauce is kind of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/?p=1930\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Seared Scallops and Herb Butter Sauce&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11,18,20,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entrees","category-menus","category-pasta","category-seafood","category-side-dishes-veggies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1930"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1932,"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1930\/revisions\/1932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}