Speaking of beaches, I love 'em. Like don't feel okay if I'm not near one/need them to survive/completely obsessed with owning a house on the beach one day love 'em. And for that reason I am a lucky girl to have friends in some great places for gazing at the ocean, never mind living in a state that offers me plenty of opportunity for that. Our very own Dave (yep, the one that co-writes this blog with me) was born to parents with a gorgeous house in Bristol, home of the country's longest standing 4th of July celebration, that offers a panoramic view of the Narragansett Bay (sigh). I have a close family friend in Hawaii, multiple friends in Florida, an office in San Francisco and a couple of my close friends in a little town called Newburyport in Massachusetts, just north of Boston. It's these friends I went and visited recently to check in with, share some stories from our lives and have my first look in person at their very precious and most beautiful 9 month old twin daughters. I love Newburyport, it's seaside and home to one of my favorite little wine shops, Grand Trunk Old World Market. This shop has a great selection of mostly old world wines, with a few new world along with cured meats, cheeses and some specialty gourmet foods. As it's rose season, it was the place to hit on our walk with the girls to pick up something to sip on back at the house (while Husband cooked for us :)
INSERT QUICK WINE LESSON HERE: Rose is not a sweet wine and should never be confused with White Zinfandel (which should also never be consumed incidentally). My friend had not had much experience with this varietal and was concerned from the get go. I reassured her by purchasing two great bottles of the stuff to go with our cured meat and cheese, a perfect pairing for rose wine. Rose wines cover the spectrum of the red family in color depending on the winemaking technique used. Some are left in contact with the skins of the black grapes for 1-3 days, some roses were born of the pink juice that remains and is fermented after a French technique applied to some red wines, and some are just mixed red and white wine that gives it the pink color. These wines can be still, semi-sparkling or sparkling. I like them all (shocker I know).
I do need to give a shout out to Husband here as he cooked one of the best dinners to go with our rose I could have asked for. As is traditional here in New England, he boiled up some lobsters and made a melted butter with fresh parsley to go with. On the side he introduced me to salt potatoes, which is basically exactly as it sounds...fingerling potatoes that he boiled and then added some healthy cracks of good sea salt, some butter and parsley and of course some fresh corn on the cob with lime, olive oil, parmesan cheese and red pepper flakes. Deeeeelish!!!
I would normally add a picture here of the spread here, but I was too busy drinking and eating. I did however, manage to get a picture of those girls, just don't think this is how your lobster should come out looking like (yes, that's a disclaimer...you'd be WAY off track).
Until next time,
Tricia (Dave started dating again, it may be a while before we hear from him)
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