- Time of past OR future Camino
- Francés x 5, Le Puy x 2, Arles, Tours, Norte, Madrid, Via de la Plata, Portuguese, Primitivo
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Wonderful idea @Kanga !!!I've just been sorting through Camino photos and I seem to have a lot of peculiar meals View attachment 9403photographed. Anyone else?
Here's one from our Camino starting at Orleans. It is a whole Camembert, cooked, with chips on the side. The calories!!!!
November 2011 at La Curiosa, Calle del Párroco José Álvarez, 15, Mansilla de las Mulas, near the friendly municipal albergue, I enjoyed an outstanding daily menu for only 10€. It included creamed cauliflower with bacon, grilled salmon and scalloped potatoes, lemon pudding, rosé wine and coffee! Wow! The Michelin inspector should try it! However, the daily menu is NOT offered on Sunday and in all probability the daily prices have risen slightly since 2011.
Margaret Meredith
Well here's the mixed platter for two, somewhere in Germany on the Jakubsweg. We actually ate most of it. Amazing what exercise can do for your appetite.
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We actually ate most of it. Amazing what exercise can do for your appetite.
Hi Kanga, I've been following your comments. Have you finished your walk? I'm starting out 12 May and wondered if you have any advise for a loner Aussie hiker?Double wow!
Hi Kanga, I've been following your comments. Have you finished your walk? I'm starting out 12 May and wondered if you have any advise for a loner Aussie hiker?
Wow! Do you remember where did you ate it???Pulpo Pizza....
Pulpo Pizza....
Those massive meals would only serve to replenish the calories burnt up during a long days walk. No one has anything to feel guilty about.
I have a photo somewhere I can't find. One day on the Le Puy for lunch we had baguettes filled with frittes. Yes - huge chip butties.
Yum! Chip butties! I live with a pack of Aussies so this Yank knows all about chip butties!
Oh no Monk Moses, that is a serious culinary insult. The chip butty is a product of Northern England - we were only eating them because we were with English friends.
Kanga.....
MOULES! My better half will require names and places! Hopefully we'll get to meet you at one of the Sydney 'gatherings' and you can hand over said 'intelligence' .
Yuk! the steak doesn't even look cooked and salad, thats just asking for delly bellyHere's another, lunch in Tours. Steak Tartare! View attachment 9410 with chips (of course)
Steak Tartare is served very rare.
Yuk! the steak doesn't even look cooked and salad, thats just asking for delly belly
I think I'll starve myself till I cross into SpainLOL! The French use real raw eggs in many dishes too. Like mayonnaise. Terribly dangerous. Particularly as their chickens just roam about the villages in the most unhygienic way. And have you seen a ripe unpasteurised French cheese under a microscope? Teaming with little wrigglers.
Incredible. Who'd eat French food?
Oh my giddy aunt! you ate that? REALLY ?My first dinner in Spain, the night before I started walking! Calories for the Camino!
I think I'll starve myself till I cross into Spain
You should be right in Spain. Nothing to worry about in eating morcillas, those delicious sausages made from fresh pigs blood. And of course everyone lives on yummy bocadillos de jamón Serrano. The ham was not cooked but it is well dried, and the cigarette smoke from the bar in which it was hanging only adds to the flavour. I can't go past queso tetilla lovingly shaped by the farmer's own bare hands into the shape of a woman's breast. But of course we all love scrumptious pulpo, watching those huge octopus being pulled out of the water vats just makes my mouth water.
Food handling gloves? Silly idea.
Hahaha! I ate two of the three. The third dish I shared, as I was absolutely bursting! Didn't realise the portions were "main portions size"... thought I was in for tasters and got the whole lot. Lucky me.Oh my giddy aunt! you ate that? REALLY ?
Thank you, Paul.Pulpo pizza restaurant was... La trastienda del 13, Calle Ancha n01 0, 24003 Leon
Buffalo steaks in Gonzar (I *think* at Casa Garcia). The picture doesn't actually give sufficient credit to the size of these. It was at least 24 oz and 1-1/2 to 2 inches thick.
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You might notice a pair of glasses on the table. Those belong to my son. The next morning, at Hospital da Cruz (5 km down the road), he announced that he had left them behind at the albergue. So I made him walk back and get them while I waited at a bar drinking cafe con leche and reading a book. I guess he worked off all this protein faster that day than I did! An extra 10 km on a day seemed the perfect natural consequence . . . <he said with an evil chuckle>
Wow, I want one!I'd forgotten about this one. View attachment 11055
At day's break give me a café cubano or two and I'll be firing on all cylinders and soon on my way tripping down the road!
Maybe with an iced water chaser...Solo?
Where is Bar Elvis? My husband is a fan so I will have to take him there on the name alone!! ThanksAfter an extremely cold mesetta day I visited Bar Elvis to warm up with a cortado with orojo!As it made me feel much better I repeated the execcise at the next town!
Where is Bar Elvis? My husband is a fan so I will have to take him there on the name alone!! Thanks
Thanks Margaret. It certainly looks an interesting place and he does look like Ramone from "The Way". Don't think we would get peanut butter and banana fried sandwiches there like in Memphis but who knows, we will be open to lots of culinary experiences in Spain.It is in Reliegos just before Mansilla de las Mulas. See this thread for more info.
Yum!Best lunch I ever had around the left side of the cathedral in Leon!
My mouth is watering over the pulpo.
I see that apart from the tortilla you managed to eat american style!
I'd forgotten about this one. View attachment 11055
For shame! Were you cooking for yourself?you know what, I've come to the conclusion that the spanish can only cook paela everthing else they try and cook is rubbish. I never had a decent meal all the time I was on the camino.
you know what, I've come to the conclusion that the spanish can only cook paela everthing else they try and cook is rubbish. I never had a decent meal all the time I was on the camino.
you know what, I've come to the conclusion that the spanish can only cook paela everthing else they try and cook is rubbish. I never had a decent meal all the time I was on the camino.
How does one post a picture? I have a picture of a plate of "Pig Ears" served as a meal on the Camino. Yes--real pig ears.
Kanga we are of a like mind.Another thread reminded me of this. Chocolate and freshly made, hot churros. View attachment 12235