August 29, 2023 Brunch - Lobster Omelet Tapas - Ham, cheese, and white anchovies. Dinner - Lobster, Octopus, and Chorizo Paella

August 29, 2023 Brunch - Lobster Omelet Tapas - Ham, cheese, and white anchovies. Dinner - Lobster, Octopus, and Chorizo Paella

Today was our first full day in Cambados and we returned to home cooking, Since we had accumulated a lot of ingredients and some awesome PPI’s the dishes we cooked were exceptional.

This morning we walked to tourist information around 10:00 and gathered a lot of information on the area including a list and map of wineries and which had won awards.

I was still not recovered from my hike of the wall and only ate a pan au chocolate before walking, but made it to tourist information, the supermarket, and back to the apartment with benefit of three sugar pills.

At the supermarket we bought coffee, Earl Grey tea, an orange, a baguette, a black tomato, lettuce, rice, a head of garlic, a cucumber, a dozen brown eggs, and a roll of fresh goat cheese.

When we returned to the apartment I ate goat cheese on slices of baguette spread with bitter orange marmalade and chopped some onion and then Suzette cooked scrambled eggs with onion and lobster.

I sliced more baguette and we both ate bread smeared with orange marmalade with the scrambled eggs.

I was done for the day and rested while Suzette worked until 1:30 and then  she walked to the palace and church and bought a bottle of the prize winning Albariño at a wine shop.

At 5:00 we decided to make tapas. I sliced more baguette and spread mayonnaise on one sliced and garnished it with a slice of serrano ham and slices of the new aged goat cheese we bought several days ago. I made a plain cheese Tapa for Suzette while she opened the container of white unsmoked anchovies we bought in Ovieto.

I drizzled the anchovies with olive oil and Suzette opened the wine and poured us glasses of it and set the table and bar stools out on the balcony and cranked the awning out so it blocked the afternoon sun.

We sat and ate tapas and sipped wine and enjoyed what we knew must be one of the best views in Cambados with an unobstructed view of the city and the surrounding countryside including the huge bay.

We were finally relaxing but Suzette wanted to make paella so I picked the remaining lobster meat out of the lobster shell and threw the shells into a pot to which Suzette added onion, three of the PPI grilled padron peppers and I added a sliced clove of garlic and filled the pot with water and she cooked the shells into a broth.

At 7:30 we cooked dinner. Suzette first cooked a cup of rice using two cups of the lobster broth.

Then she added some of the freshly cooked rice to the PPI rice and lobster prepared at the Penaalta restaurant that we ate for Suzette’s birthday on the 25th plus most of the octopus left from lunch two days ago and sliced 1/2 of the chorizo sausage and sautéed those ingredients into an instant paella and served it with the leftover brown bread from Suzette’s birthday dinner.

We poured glasses of Albariño and enjoyed a wonderful lobster, chorizo, and octopus paella with brown bread that we dipped in the flavored olive oil left from the dish.

We then poured out glasses of the wine and watched a cute movie called Monte Carlo on Netflix with a piece of chocolate.

At 10:00 Suzette went to bed and I blogged this entry.

Tomorrow we go back on the road.

I enjoyed resting today and our cooking all the PPI’s we accumulated from the wonderful meals we ate while we stayed in Figueres.

Bon Appetit