The lineup: Olive oil, Sea Scallops, 2 cloves of garlic (3 cloves if you think you can handle it), 1/4 of a white onion, a generous of white wine, 2 tbs of butter, red potatoes (however many you feel like), rosemary, chives and salt & peppa to taste.
1. Begin by pulling of the nasty hard muscles off of the scallops. see below:
2. For the potatoes we'll be following the fabulous pioneer woman, Ree. See recipe for crash hot potatoes. You're gonna wanna make sure these are in the oven before you finish the rest. Otherwise you'll be eating potatoes all by themselves 10 minutes after you finish eating everything else. 
3. Mince the garlic and chop the onion. Throw a clove across the kitchen, retrieve clove and continue mincing. Oh yeah, start heating some olive oil in a small pot.
4. Add onion and saute for a few minutes. Then add the garlic. And go ahead and pour yourself a nice glass of wine. It's Thursday, you need, no you deserve one.
5. Add a generous of white wine to the sauce pot. Add the juice of 1/2 a lemon or if you're feelin frisky about 1/3 a cup or so of straight lemon juice. Bring to a boil for 5 minutes.
6. Strain into a bowl. Return sauce to pot and wisk in butter. Keep warm. 
7. Heat a little oil in another skillety sauce pan thingy (technical cooking term). Add scallops and saute on both sides for a few minutes. Then, add onion and garlic to the scallops. Its ok to taste the sauce, don't feel bad about it.
If you're running low, go ahead and add the rest of that bottle of wine to your glass. I won't tell anyone.
8. Continue to saute scallops in the garlic and onions for a few more minutes, or until done but not until chewy. There's a fine line.
9. If you haven't already, start steaming the broccoli. Now stand back and admire your work in your tiny kitchen.
10. Everything should be just about done now. So start serving onto plates. Make sure you pour some of that delicious wine sauce over just about everything. 
11. Now since you forgot to start the potatoes when you should have. Go ahead and start eating. Then when you go to get the potatoes our of the oven, don't let your cat do this:
I know he's cute, but don't let him fool you. Just when he thinks you're not looking... bam..paw to the broccoli. Yeah, he's weird. He's a cat who loves broccoli. But I still love him =) 
If your kitchen doesn't look like this (see right)...
A) your kitchen is not nearly as tiny as mine,and yes you are looking at the whole kitchen (fridge to the left, wine cooler to the right) and all the counter space I have.
B) you haven't done your job right tonight.
Now that is what Thursday nights are all about. Boys can't handle it. ;-)
HAPPY COOKING!!
Stay tuned for another installment of Thursday nights with Jackie and Erin next week, where so far the menu stands at chicken stir fry....but we change our minds alot so be prepared if that happens, hehe...I'm just sayin.
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