Scallops and Bacon

This is one of my favourites: it has just the right balance between nursery comfort and dining-room elegance and takes hardly any time to cook – and thus is just what you need after a hard day’s work. Properly speaking, it is more of a starter or savoury, but when there’s just two of you eating, it makes a perfect supper almost in its entirety; all I’d add is a dark and leafy salad, dressed with walnut oil and lemon juice.

You should aim to buy your scallops (unfrozen) from a fishmo