Big Bend Scallop Rolls.
And the classic French dish is coquilles St. Jacques.
It’s rich, fancy and usually served baked in large sea scallop shells to discriminating diners, some likely named Jacques.
They’d prefer something simpler— and usually handheld—rather than something served atop fine linens and aside engraved silverware.
FS Seafood Rolls: Big Bend Style (serves 4) 1 pound Florida bay scallops ½ pound shrimp (peeled, deveined and split horizontally) ½ pound cooked lump crabmeat 4 buttered and toasted hot dog buns, insides sprinkled with grated Parmesan cheese 3 tbsp.
all-purpose flour ½ cup white wine (the good stuff!)
dry mustard Salt and white pepper, to taste Finely chopped chives In a large saucepan, melt the butter over medium heat.
Add the garlic.
Wisk in the wine and the warm milk and cook until the mixture thickens.
Add the mustard, salt and pepper, then the shrimp and scallops, stirring until cooked through.
Seafood roll—Big Bend style—is summer comfort food, but you have to get to the scallop’s zones on the west coast to catch your own.
In France, scallops are coquilles. And the classic French dish is coquilles St. Jacques. It’s rich, fancy and usually served baked in large sea scallop shells to discriminating diners, some likely named Jacques. But here in Florida, all my friends named Jack pick their own scallops from our Gulf flats during the three-month season and frankly, they don’t go in for fancy food. They’d prefer something simpler— and usually handheld—rather than something served atop fine linens and aside engraved silverware. That’s where this picnic version of the classic French dish begins.
Our abundance of local seafood spoils us. And Florida bay scallops…
