Weekly Featured recipe and photo from Cooking Lounge  Michelle Morin-Boles

Shrimp scampi with seared garlic seasoned scallops & asparagus. Recipe below!

Ingredients:

* 1/2 lb fettuccine pasta
* 1 lb shrimp uncooked peeled & deveined tails off
* Large scallops
* Asparagus
* Tbsp butter
* 1/2 cup dry white wine optional
* 5 cloves fresh garlic minced
* 4 Tbsp of extra virgin olive oil
* 1 tbsp fresh or dried parsley leaves
* 1/2 tsp lemon juice
* freshly cracked black pepper

Instructions:

* Cook Fettuccine according to package directions.

* Dried scallops & sprinkled lightly on both sides with garlic powder. While sauce is cooking place 1 Tbsp of butter in stainless pan & heat on medium high. Be careful not to burn butter. Once butter is melted add scallops to pan (don’t crowd). Sear both sides & serve on top of finished scampi dish.
* In a separate medium saucepan, add oil. When oil is getting hot, add minced fresh garlic and cook on medium heat for 30 seconds. Add white wine, shrimp, parsley, lemon juice and black pepper. Stir and cook for five minutes until shrimp becomes pink and alcohol cooks out. Remove from heat.
* When pasta is done cooking according to package directions (about 10 min), drain and stir it with the shrimp until the oil has coated the pasta. Garnish with more parsley leaves if desired.