Jay was here for dinner tonight. I didn’t have any pineapple juice concentrate, so I used orange instead. The whole dinner turned out really well, and Larry especially liked the green beans. The recipe calls for asparagus, which I hate – so I used young, tender green beans instead. The bamboo rice didn’t especially impress Larry and Jay. It’s pretty, and tastes kind of like green tea, but it’s not a showstopper. The scallops and green beans are also in the Fall 2003 Quick and Delicious special issue.

• Seared Scallops with Pineapple-Ginger Sauce (Fine Cooking #50, May 2002, p. 82b)
• Ginger-Sesame Green Beans (Fine Cooking #45, July 2001, p. 46)
• Oven-Roasted Cauliflower
• Bamboo rice

Wine: 2003 Sapphire Hill Bastoni Vineyard Palomino (Sonoma County, California).