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Warm Scallop Salad with Corn, Nectarines, and Basil ~ French Fridays with Dorie

August 10, 2012 by susanelester 22 Comments


Warm Scallop Salad with Corn, Nectarines, and Basil 
by Dorie Greenspan

Limes from our tree!
This week’s French Fridays with Dorie challenge is for this wonderful summer salad bursting with flavor.  The link above takes you to the original recipe.  We customized it a little bit.  First, we lined our plates with spring greens from our garden.  Then, we roasted the tomatoes with the nectarines to give them more flavor.  In addition to the corn, we scattered cubed avocado and blueberries among the scallops.  We also used limes, basil, and a tomato all  from our garden.

We rolled the tomatoes in olive oil & grilled them, too, for extra flavor – the one on the far left is from our garden!
Scallops ready for the grill
I was really surprised how much I enjoyed the grilled nectarine.  It would have been wonderful with a scoop of ice cream in it, too!

Summer on a plate!
Bon Appetit!
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Comments

  1. Laura (Tutti Dolci) says

    August 10, 2012 at 4:50 am

    What a beautiful salad! I love that you roasted the nectarines and tomatoes too – great idea!

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  2. Trevor Sis Boom says

    August 10, 2012 at 6:04 am

    Quite yummy indeed and so easy to put together. Jealous of your bounty here. I need a plot of land!

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  3. Cher Rockwell says

    August 10, 2012 at 10:40 am

    I have lime jealously 🙂 How fun to be able to pick yours from your backyard.
    Beautiful take on this salad, Susan!

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  4. Paula @ Vintage Kitchen says

    August 10, 2012 at 11:21 am

    I love that you grilled the nectarines. It´s such a different flavor, I try to grill whenever I can. Tomatoes from your garden! I wish I had those. Great dish and wonderful pics!

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  5. The Café Sucré Farine says

    August 10, 2012 at 11:45 am

    Delicious, Susan, I love all your summery ingredients!

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  6. Pacheco Patty says

    August 10, 2012 at 12:44 pm

    Beautiful! Now this is a salad bursting with colors and flavors,yum;-)
    We liked the grilled nectarines too;-)

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  7. Rosemary says

    August 10, 2012 at 2:14 pm

    Call me crazy, but I just love a warm salad. All thos fresh fruits and veggies. And with scallops no less. Heaven!

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  8. Cakelaw says

    August 10, 2012 at 2:15 pm

    It looks so pretty – and so impressive that you grew your own veges. The blueberries are a nice touch.

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  9. Geraldine Saucier says

    August 10, 2012 at 4:59 pm

    The salad is beautiful! How lucky you are to have such a wonderful garden. I love the use of avocados and blueberries. Nice job! I hope you have a great weekend.

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  10. Diane Balch says

    August 10, 2012 at 5:16 pm

    You added some blueberries…. very interesting.

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  11. Mary Hirsch says

    August 10, 2012 at 7:21 pm

    Hi Susan, I have just a few questions about your very gorgeous photographs showing all that home-grown produce. Just who does the gardening at your house? Realizing that you both work as well as (apparently) enjoying a very active social life, do either of you have the time for dirt work? Gardening at your productive level takes boots on the ground, so to speak. Whoever is doing the labor, you, John or a mystery person, good job. On to your salad. I got deathly sick on scallops once and have never been able to work with nor eat them againl. However, your last picture almost made a convert out of me. Lovely, lovely scallop supper.

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  12. Guyla says

    August 10, 2012 at 8:44 pm

    Excellent changes! And I envy your fresh from your garden produce.

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  13. acookingmizer says

    August 10, 2012 at 10:08 pm

    ice cream with the nectarine would have been amazing! LOL!! love your additions! it all looks so festive!

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  14. michelle says

    August 10, 2012 at 10:59 pm

    Yours turned out beautifully! 🙂

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  15. Teresa says

    August 11, 2012 at 6:55 am

    Nice additions! I told my partner that if he didn’t like the nectarine with the salad, he could consider it dessert, instead. In the end, we thought it worked very well with the rest of the flavours.

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  16. Angie's Recipes says

    August 11, 2012 at 1:23 pm

    What a gorgeous salad!

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  17. Beth (OMG! Yummy) says

    August 11, 2012 at 9:02 pm

    Love the avocado and blueberry add and the roasting of the tomatoes! Beautiful! Our lime tree is just working on a new crop so I barely had enough for the salad but got in under the wire.

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  18. Maggie says

    August 12, 2012 at 7:29 pm

    So yummy looking! I’d love a huge plate right now please! 🙂

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  19. dulceshome.com says

    August 13, 2012 at 2:04 am

    I should have known you would come up with a brilliant idea – avocadoes!!! Oh my. Your salad looks fabulous.

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  20. Rose says

    August 13, 2012 at 4:58 pm

    Looks wonderful. I just made this this past weekend and was also surprised by how nice the nectarines were. I’d never cooked fruit like that so it was quite new for me.

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  21. Kathy says

    August 14, 2012 at 11:36 pm

    Your Scallop Salad looks incredible, Susan! Love the addition of the blueberries…we so enjoyed this one! A perfect summer salad!

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  22. Betsy says

    August 16, 2012 at 12:49 am

    I agree with you that this was summer on a plate! I like your additions, especially the avocado. I left out the nectarine for reasons of family harmony, but it does enticing. I like the idea of adding ice cream to the grilled fruit. I just made basil ice cream this week and that would be a perfect pairing!

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