Sunday, June 24, 2012

Bean soup

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Santa Rosa, June 23, 2012—
OH BOY, WHAT a delicious soup at supper tonight, with friends in their comfortable home. As Mac says, Marjorie has a way with beans. These were cooked to just the right degree, not losing their chestnutty texture, and the soup was colorful with just the right amount of tomato and healthy dark green kale, and piquant with andouillette, and meaty-sweet with ham hocks — marvelous.

Afterward, blackberry pie from Gayle's Bakery, as we'd driven up from Santa Cruz before supper. Gayle's is one of our favorites, and we have three loaves of bread to report on later…
Vin Gris, Preston of Dry Creek, 2011 (crisp, lean, pleasant); Pinot noir, Toulouse (Anderson Valley), 2008 (full, fine varietal character, mature)

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