Basil Scallops and Brown Rice

Tonight was a crazy night. I ordered the Nike+ FuelBand for my fiancee's birthday. It supposedly arrived today at my door, according to UPS's tracking information. I came home and it wasn't there. I had to make a bunch of calls, and it looks like I may be getting a replacement. After that was all said and done, I needed to make dinner.

I decided to cook up some brown rice with scallops and pesto. I had frozen scallops that I bought from Trader Joe's and had them defrosting in the fridge during work. I made 2 cups of brown rice, made sure it was rinsed really good in a strainer. I then added 4 cups of water into a pot, and dumped the brown rice into it. I put a few thinly slice garlic cloves into the pot and about 1 oz of olive oil. I put it on medium heat and let it cook for about 45 minutes. When the rice started to boil, I lowered the heat to a slow simmer.

In a pan I put about 2oz of pesto that my dad made. I let it heat up for about a minute on medium heat.

I added the scallops into the pan and let them cook between 6 and 8 minutes on each side. Meanwhile, I made a martini.

Simple recipe was used, one shot of vermouth, and two shots of gin. It was mixed up with a few cubes of ice and poured over three olives. Enjoyed it while cooking the scallops.

After cooking the scallops on each side for about 8 minutes, you can add a few cut up pieces of dried chili peppers to spice up the dish a bit. Let the scallops cook another minute while constantly flipping each of the scallops.

Now it is ready to serve. Put a few scoops of brown rice in a dish and place some scallops over top of the brown rice. Pour some of the pesto sauce over the scallops and brown rice.

Enjoy everyone!