For dinner on Saturday we wanted to try a few new things.  First, Mom had talked about a nutella gelato recipe she had made for us (when we were too young to remember) so we wanted to try that.  Second, we wanted to try to cook a fish we had never cooked before, because we don’t cook much fish. And third, we wanted to take advantage of the amazing vegetables at the Farmer’s Market.   We were lucky because our Farmer’s Market also has a really good seafood selection.  So we bought fresh (dry) scallops, the last of the summer corn, great tomatoes and a few other things–eggs etc. Our menu was seared scallops over a spinach-orso-tomato-bacon salad, with corn-on-the-cob and plain orso on the side. For dessert (which we actually started WAY before dinner time), we made nutella gelato.  (We also seared some chicken along with the scallops just in case they didn’t turn out so well).

Here is: the full meal;a plated dish for mom; and the nutella gelato about to be scooped out of the ice cream maker.

We will add more “how-to” steps tomorrow, but Mom is making us go to bed now.  We did want to share the final plated dessert.  (We had made fudge brownies the day before, so we thought, what better combination than brownies with nutella gelato?) Oh and by the way, nutella gelato is so easy to make! Just make sure you cool the nutella-ice cream mis a lot before you put it in the ice cream mixer.

More details on the gelato……

The ingredients……

Whipping lots of egg yolks with sugar

Heating eggs, cream, milk and sugar..

Stirring in the nutella. (Dad said this looked like dirty soap water!!! But it didn’t taste that way)

Yum!