Today we drove down to Asheville to visit our good friends, Patrick & Wendy. The McGavocks left Stuart a few years ago and the place hasn’t been the same since. It can be difficult to keep social momentum when one of the key couples departs and that’s certainly been the case for us so it’s always a treat when we can spend time with them.
I spoke to Patrick a day earlier and he said that Wendy was going to make us a quiche for brunch and asked if we liked pork 🤣. Now I have to admit that I’m a bit of a picky eater and when he said quiche my mind heard cheese – my gastronomic nemesis (I’m not lactose intolerant, I just don’t like cheese) but I figured that however it was, I’d suck it up and eat it. Wendy is a good cook and these are our good friends and the last thing I’d want to do is offend them by being picky. So it was with some trepidation that I sat down and began to eat. I couldn’t have been more wrong or relieved. That was one of the best things I’ve ever had in my mouth. It was meaty, spicy, and delicious 😋 and of course I had to have the recipe.
After that wonderful start to the day, we were off to the aptly named Point Lookout Vineyards where we met up with another ex-Stuart-ite, Renee Althauser, for some wine with a view:
After a glass we were whisked off to the Saint Paul Mountain Vineyards for some bluegrass and a bit more wine:
yes, there’s 12 glasses on the table but who’s counting?!
One more stop and then it was time to get back to the kids. Patrick was very concerned that they could be in distress after being left alone for so long so we checked the camera in the RV:
hmmmm, maybe just one more glass.
