Today’s post doesn’t feature any horses or carriages. But it does have a little bit of both local and Spanish flavor … to continue with our occasional look at life, history, and food here in Lexington, and with our recaps of the recent CAA trip to Sevilla.
One of our local food treasures is a downtown shop called Wine+Market.
A.J. and I often stop there for Friday-evening wine tastings. Or to pick up a bottle, or two, of wine. Or to get dessert for later, in the form of a few incomparable made-from-scratch cookies and/or macarons.
But today, for the first time, we ate lunch there … finally trying a couple of items from the sandwich menu we’ve been drooling over.
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A.J.'s grilled sandwich with chorizo and manchego (see? Spanish flavors!)
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I took this photo with my phone, as that was the only camera I happened to have with me, and I do realize that it’s not the best. The sandwich, however, was pretty darned awesome, as was the one I tried: ham, Swiss cheese, and organic fig spread on toasted whole-wheat bread.
For proper photos, and a lovely review, of the delightful W+M, check out this blog post by Stella (who also makes all the aforementioned cookies and macarons; although, when she wrote the post last fall, she wasn’t yet baking for W+M).
One more Spanish-flavor connection: The wine-shop portion of W+M is the only place in Lexington we’ve found proper (dark, sweet, raisin-y) one-hundred-percent Pedro Ximenez sherry. With that, or a cream sherry, a dry Fino, or an even drier Manzanilla (all of which we can find at a variety of wine shops) — along with some homemade paella … or garlic shrimp … or cheese, ham, and olives — on a crazy hot day like we’ve had here lately, and it’s easy to pretend we’re on a mini-vacation in Spain. Ahhhh.
The Slower Road 