4 Days of wonderful dinners

So the place we stayed at, as we said earlier, is quite rustic.   Dan cannot walk in the upstairs loft where the bed is because he would hit his head.  I laughed hilariously the first night as he looked like Gulliver. The bed is comfortable and the loft is cozy, but it would probably be hot in the summer. 

We have grown quite fond of it here, however, though we are ready to leave.  The best part is the cook, Marie Therese, and her  husband Alfonso.

The rest of the very small staff are very friendly also.  It probably borders on overly casual, but we love it!  Their 2 delightful dogs run in and out, coming over for a pet, quite often during meals until they get shoed out.    Marie comes out and talks to us in her broken English fand she wants to learn the correct words and loves to talk!  One night, she talked about being Catalan, as well as her feelings, and her elders feelings, about Franco.  (NOT positive!)  She is proudly Catalan, as most everyone here is, and they display the Catalan flag 


But i want to talk about the food!  Marie Therese owned a restaurant in Barcelona in the Barrie Gothic district before moving here with her very nice husband.  We have been the only guests in the hotel for several nights, so she has cooked whatever we like.  And she can cook!  My  dinner was thinly sliced turkey rolled up with a wonderful emmenthal and blue cheese sauce, oh, it was wonderful!  Tonight was my favorite meal, which I requested--duck confit.   She cooked the duck crispy on the outside, so full of flavor from the confit, and tender on the inside.  But the best part was the accompaniment, which was thinly sliced apples cooked in butter and sugar.  The combination of the tastes was heavenly and I told her this should be her signature dish.

Dan will tell his own food loves.  

I also loved the Duck, and she prepared Mackarel which was fantastic  The best part was having our own cook for a week.  When we did eat somewhere else the quality was nowhere as good.  I also liked the sausages at breakfast and suprisingly the Spanish beer was quite good.