Monday, September 20, 2010

Ashland, 4: a casa

Ashland, Sept. 20—

DINNER AT "HOME" tonight: you can't go on eating every night in restaurants, even when you're on the road. We stay here with three other couples for a week every year to see plays, and Mondays the theater's dark. Tonight, then, dinner at home.

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We walked a short mile or so to the supermarket to buy provisions: pasta, tomatoes, sausages, garlic, olive oil, salad, an onion. Once home, it was a simple matter to seed and chop the tomatoes, fry up the broken-up sausages, cook the pasta, make a salad. Dessert: Straus ice cream (vanilla; Dutch chocolate) with salt caramel sauce from Alma in Portland, a few chopped pecans strewn on top. Dinner was cheaper and in many ways better than many restaurant meals we've been eating…

Rosé de Provence, Triennes (Nans-les-Pins), 2009; Pinot noir, Pedroncelli, 2008; Rosso, Coppola; Mourvedre, Louis Preston Vineyards, 2007

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