December 19th La Cuadrilla

Today we wanted to catch up on our emails and update this blog so we started the day with a little laundry and a trip to the library but the big event of the day was lunch at La Cuadrilla.  Since we found this little restaurant we’ve been hooked on it.  We had another wonderful lunch here today and we have reservations for lunch on the 24^th.    Pedro in his kitchen and Mercedes in the dining room.




Today we planned on having two ‘menu del dia’ lunches but when I saw that they had wild boar again I weakened and ordered it instead.   For the first course I had a salad that tasted fresh out of the garden and Deb had a dish of potatoes cooked in olive oil and butter studded with mushrooms and jamon.  For her second course Deb had a grilled pork cutlet, although they butcher the animals differently from the U.S. so cutlet is as close as I can come.  It came out perfectly with a nice crisp exterior and a juicy interior, along with it we had another wonderful Spanish red from the Ribera del Duero region and it was a perfect complement to both the boar and the cutlet.