Scallops are great cooked in a hot pan and finished with *a lot* of hot foamy butter. But for this dish baking them in their shells with a fragrant lemongrass and pink peppercorn butter felt like the better move.  Oven baked Scallop. Lemongrass, Dulse and Pink Peppercorn. @badseedsedin @sam.yorke

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