September 9, 2024 Brunch - Asparagus, cheese, and onion omelet. Dinner - White Bean Stew with Chorizo
This morning we decided to drive to Marín to the market and to buy groceries. We ate a quick piece of toast with cheese and drove the thirty minutes past Pontevedra to the central market in Marin and found a parking spot easily, which was a bad sign.
When we entered the Food Hall we discovered that there are no fish or produce vendors open on Mondays. There were only three meat vendors open for business and we only bought two chorizo for 2 Euro.
We then walked two blocks to the supermarket across the road and filled our basket with staples, including: milk, butter, orange marmalade, a dark brown baguette, yogurt, salami, shampoo, conditioner, asparagus, beer, wine, sugar, eggs, carrots, leeks, and green olives.
Our intention was to go to a market tomorrow to buy fresh fish.
We then drove back to the house and made an asparagus, cheese, and onion omelet with sliced toasted and buttered bread spread with orange marmalade and coffee with hot milk.
I was finally feeling energized, so we did research on wineries for two hours to try to pick two wineries that we could couple with a lunch for one of the days that all 7 of us would be in Combarro.
Suzette discovered that our favored winery, Mar de Frades (Sea of the Friars) had a tasting in English today at 4:30, so we reserved the tasting, took a nap, and at 3:15 drove to the winery.
When we arrived we were given a tasting of three of their better wines. A sparkling Albariño champagne style wine, a Godello wine, and the single vineyard award wining wine, Finca Valinas. We bought four bottles of wine and reserved a tasting for the 17th at 4:30 and drove back to the house. So we had created tasting that was very much in doubt before our trip to the winery.
On the way back to the house we stopped in Combarro and walked around the crowded but charming old waterfront area to a restaurant that was recommended by our host, but found it closed at 6:00, which is between lunch and dinner in Spain.
As we walked back to the car we passed a Panaderia that was open, because they usually open from 4:00 or 5:00 until 7:00 or 8:00 in Spain.
We bought a croissant for Suzette and a pain au chocolate for me for breakfast and a pound of raisin bread to make French toast.
Suzette had soaked a cup of large white beans that looked like Lima beans but were not, before we left for Marín this morning.
When we returned home I diced 1/2 pimiento, a carrot, 1 1/3 cippolini onions, and four cloves of garlic and Suzette diced one of the chorizo sausages we bought this morning and sautéed those ingredients in olive oil and then added the beans and water and simmered the beans for two hours until they were soft, while she helped me prepare and file a letter in the Lower Rio Grande Adjudication.
When I finished filing at 10:00, the beans were soft and well integrated with the other ingredients. Suzette served a bowl of stewed beans with a dusting of a micro-grated Parmesan style Spanish cheese, a toasted piece of artisanal brown bread and we opened the bottle of Rioja Crianza red wine we bought at the supermarket today. Like many inexpensive supermarket wines, it was not great but it was smooth and I liked it with the stew.
We went to bed at 10:30, Suzette to sleep and I to blog after a day with a couple of learning experiences and a couple of surprising successes.
Bon Appetit
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