Father's Day Feast: Lobster Cakes & Bacon Wrapped Scallops

With Father's Day 2023 officially in the books, it's time to decompress and look back. This year we released our first gift box for the holiday, which was quite the success! Thank you all for your orders and can't wait to hear back on how you like the newest Rubb (Sweet Devil)! Besides going all out on our products, we went all out on the meal! Tomahawk steak, roasted potatoes, bacon-wrapped scallops and lobster-cakes! I'll be adding all of these as blogs (separately) over the next little bit. I figured I would start with the surf as far as our surf-and-turf went: Lobster Cakes & Bacon Wrapped Scallops (LC-BWS)

So when I am making a big feast and have various items going, I like to write out what all needs to be cooked at what temperature and for how long and take into consideration the cooking methods. I was going to have the Weber going for the tomahawk (to be finished on Traeger) so the potatoes and LC-BWS could go on the Traeger first. The LC's needed 400-degrees for 16 minutes (according to package) and the BWS needed 375-degrees for 16 minutes (according to package). Well my Traeger doesn't have a 400-degree setting so 375 it was! The tomahawk was going to need about 17 minutes at 450-degrees on the Traeger, so I could fire up to that heat for the last little bit to make sure everything was cooked to a safe temp.

Recipe wise, this may be one of the most simple blogs yet:

Lobster Cakes = From box (that's it)

Bacon-Wrapped Scallops = From box, sprayed with avocado-oil and then seasoned with Donovan's Beef.

I put all the items on a (well-used) cooking sheet which went onto the Traeger (at 375)

After about 8 minutes I flipped the BWSs and spun the cooking sheet around.

Another 8 minutes and then cranked the Traeger up to 450 (tomahawk was inbound).

Left the cooking-sheet on for another 3 minutes or so and then pulled it to let rest.

Everything was perfectly cooked through and the bacon had gotten a great crunch on it. The Donovan's Beef really helped make those little scallop-delights pop! The light-smoke flavor from the Traeger also put a nice little touch.

While this recipe isn't the most "hands-on" it does make for some quick-hitters and allow you to focus more on other parts of the meal as needed. I would strongly recommend this for your next get-together.

Chubbs