Food - photos from the Camino

[Kanga]

I've just been sorting through Camino photos and I seem to have a lot of peculiar meals photographed. Anyone else?
Here's one from our Camino starting at Orleans. It is a whole Camembert, cooked, with chips on the side. The calories!!!!

 

[KinkyOne]

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!!!!

Wonderful idea @Kanga !!!

I have all sorts of photos, but none of the meals. Mainly because being on the budget which means chorizo&queso&pan, Platos Combinados and Menu del Peregrino. Nothing really worth taking my DSLR out
But looking forward to see those pics of beautiful meals which I can include in my list of "Good CF Cuisine Experiences" list. Hopefully the photos will be accompanied with additional data on where, what, how much etc.

Have a nice day!

K1

 

[mspath]

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

 

[Kanga]

Here's another, lunch in Tours. Steak Tartare! with chips (of course)

 

[Kanga]

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

Yum, that looks and sounds delicious.

 

[newfydog]

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.

 

[Monk Moses]

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.

View attachment 9411

WOW!

 

[Kanga]

We actually ate most of it. Amazing what exercise can do for your appetite.

Double wow!

 

[Gesha]

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?

 

[Kanga]

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?

I'm not on the walk this year but have walked 7 caminos in the past. Hoping to walk another next year. Will send a private message with contact info if you want to chat.

 

[cherrys]

One of my favorite meals, or at least the accompaniment to it.

 

[Kanga]

Moules

And chips ......

 

[ksam]

Puenta la Reina! Ate every bite!! Tortilla, Chorizo, Ensalada Ruse, Pasta Salad, Pan y Jamon! Cerveza!!

 

[psheehan]

Pulpo Pizza....

 

[KinkyOne]

Pulpo Pizza....

Wow! Do you remember where did you ate it???

Buen provecho

 

[psheehan]

Yes, in Leon... In a restaurant on the main street as you walk up towards the Cathedral. I'll see if I can find the name of the restaurant.

Paul.

 

[Stephen]

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.

 

[Kanga]

Pulpo Pizza....

Yum. Although I'd prefer plain pulpo. I really miss it. Nothing like it here.

 

[Kanga]

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.

 

[Robo]

Moules View attachment 9416

And chips ......

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' .

 

[psheehan]

Pulpo pizza restaurant was... La trastienda del 13, Calle Ancha n01 0, 24003 Leon

 

[koilife]

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.



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>

 

[Monk Moses]

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!

 

[psheehan]

Best tortilla on the Camino...

 

[Kanga]

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.

 

[Monk Moses]

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.

The Aussies I live with are all about their chip butties. With HP sauce if we can find it here in the colonies.

 

[Kanga]

Hmmm chips with sugar (HP sauce) - actually due to finger fumbles that came out "hips with sugar" which is not far wrong....

 

[Kanga]

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' .

On the Chermin from Paris, pretty sure the town was Saintes. Absolutely delicious and huge bowls.

 

[tictoc]

Here's another, lunch in Tours. Steak Tartare! View attachment 9410 with chips (of course)

Yuk! the steak doesn't even look cooked and salad, thats just asking for delly belly

 

[Stephen]

Steak Tartare is served very rare.

 

[Kanga]

Steak Tartare is served very rare.

I think the animal was dead. Just.

 

[Kanga]

Yuk! the steak doesn't even look cooked and salad, thats just asking for delly belly

LOL! 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?

 

[sarahwillwalk]

My first dinner in Spain, the night before I started walking! Calories for the Camino!

 

[Icacos]

Dessert, menu del dia, Queso O'Cebreiro, at Albergue La Escuela, Laguna de Castilla. When I was told that the cheese is a regional specialty, I had to try it. They do desserts large in this neck of the woods.

 

[tictoc]

LOL! 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?

I think I'll starve myself till I cross into Spain

 

[tictoc]

My first dinner in Spain, the night before I started walking! Calories for the Camino!

Oh my giddy aunt! you ate that? REALLY ?

 

[Kanga]

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.

 

[Monk Moses]

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.

As a former chef de cuisine I can't wait to try all this yummy stuff!

 

[sarahwillwalk]

Oh my giddy aunt! you ate that? REALLY ?

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.

 

[KinkyOne]

Pulpo pizza restaurant was... La trastienda del 13, Calle Ancha n01 0, 24003 Leon

Thank you, Paul.
That's very convenient location, very close to Hostel Unamuno where I'll be staying for two days beginning of July. I guess that one meal is already booked

 

[Maya2]

Can't explain it, but I'm suddenly very hungry.

 

[Larry from Sydney]

So many good foods to try let the trying start on the 15th May in SJPDP where my lovely wife and I will enjoy being with our fellow pilgrims


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[SabsP]

http://www.caminodesantiago.me/comm...d-on-the-different-caminos.22756/#post-175193

 

[tictoc]

I'm definitley packing indigestion tablets

 

[Larry from Sydney]

Like everything on the Camino enjoy the experiences The Way provides


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[Kanga]

Pulpo - I absolutely love it.

 

[Larry from Sydney]

Me too



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[Silverton]

Food only? Here's my well-earned liquid refreshment on arrival at O Cebreiro? As Sydney Mike has asserted on another forum, pilgrims have to keep their ankles hydrated! (I'm not sure I know how to attach a photo--here's hoping.)

 

[Icacos]

This picture was taken in Carriόn de los Condes. I was all by myself, had just been diagnosed with tendinitis and told to “rest” my legs for five days ... My Camino I was at risk!!! I hobbled across the street to a bar where I bought a Coke, and was planning to sit in the sun and mull over my sorrows. The barkeep added the tapa gratis. I like to think it was his way of commiserating with me. In any event, it was a gesture much appreciated.

 

[Kanga]

Cafe Gourmand - wish I'd known about this years ago - a selection of desserts with coffee.

 

[Balian]

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.

View attachment 9703

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>

Thats what I call a steak

 

[bystander]

From Kanga earlier:
"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?"

This from an Aussie! And they call us "whinging Poms" ! Toughen up, Kanga, toughen up!

We have free range chickens plus horses plus dogs so you can guess what part of their diet consists of. Never had a problem here, even with home-made mayonnaise, loads of unpasteurised cheese, jambon cru and black pudding (not necessarily all together or at the same time)!

As to mussels, some years ago, having sailed by yacht across the channel, I had a competition with my godson in Omonville-la-Rogue over moules mariniere. We admitted defeat after somewhere over 150 mussels each. After a leisurely digestif we then each had a fillet steak with pommes frites!

 

[Al the optimist]

At the mussel bar near to Burgos Cathedral

 

[Kanga]

I'd forgotten about this one.

 

[pilgrim b]

I can still smell and taste this picture

 

[Al the optimist]

I'd forgotten about this one. View attachment 11055

Wow, I want one!

 

[tominrm]

1. pork roast - orisson
2. black rice paella
3. paella valeciana

 

[bystander]

Be warned, clutch your Bibles/rosaries/holy water/garlic etc for I am about to admit an heresy
I CANNOT STAND CAFÉ CON LECHE
There I have admitted it
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!

 

[Kanga]

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!

Solo?

 

[Al the optimist]

After 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!

 

[bystander]

Solo?

Maybe with an iced water chaser...
When arriving in France after a night crossing (sailing) it is/was always an espresso with calvados but then I wouldn't expect to have to walk thereafter

 

[sriyantra]

After 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

 

[mspath]

Where is Bar Elvis? My husband is a fan so I will have to take him there on the name alone!! Thanks

It is in Reliegos just before Mansilla de las Mulas. See this thread for more info.

 

[Al the optimist]

With graffiti loaded mud walls that have a notice saying "Please do not write on walls"! The barman is quite a character.

 

[indyinmaine]

Best lunch I ever had around the left side of the cathedral in Leon!

 

[sriyantra]

It is in Reliegos just before Mansilla de las Mulas. See this thread for more info.

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.

 

[Kanga]

Just remembering the advertising brochures put out when the private albergue in Boadilla (with the lovely pool in a garden) first opened. We could not resist the invitation (in English) to stay and eat the "local foods on plates of mud"....

I think it meant "regional fare served in earthenware dishes".

Whatever, it was good!

 

[Alexster66]

1. pork roast - orisson
2. black rice paella
3. paella valeciana

Hey Tom, we were at Orisson on the same night, loved the roast pork and beans.
Trout and Paella were my favorites on the way.
Could never get enough

 

[Kanga]

Best lunch I ever had around the left side of the cathedral in Leon!

Yum!

 

[tominrm]

Pulpo Galicia style (with coarsely ground salt)



Paella (Valenciana?) at Albergue San Bol.

 

[Kanga]

My mouth is watering over the pulpo.

 

[Monk Moses]

My mouth is watering over the pulpo.

Mine too!

 

[bystander]

General dribbling going on here!

 

[Kanga]

Bibs all round? Plus a glass of Albariño?

 

[ManyMiles2Go]

My wife was missing the USA and wanted an American Beer (with her breakfast)

 

[ManyMiles2Go]

Nothing like a big meal to replenish those burned calories.

 

[ManyMiles2Go]

When we got to Leon, I was missing home too. Where better to remember home than a McDonalds

 

[ManyMiles2Go]

When we got to Santiago, the menu had apple pie on it. Well, being from the Pennsylvania Dutch country, I wanted ice cream on my apple pie. The waiter refused to put ice cream on my pie, so I said "Give me an order of pie, and an order of ice cream". Thought I would just do it myself. Unfortunately, Spanish apple pie is nothing like my grandma used to make

 

[Al the optimist]

I see that apart from the tortilla you managed to eat american style!

 

[Kanga]

found the baguettes with frites!

 

[ManyMiles2Go]

I see that apart from the tortilla you managed to eat american style!

Oh no, we had plenty of the local cuisine. These were just my "missing home" meals Tried pulpo for the first time and loved it. Also bought a paella pan when we got home, loved that too I chickened out on the trucha, though. Might have to try that next time we go back!!

 

[Stephen]

Kanga's chip butty looks very toothsome.

 

[Balian]

I'd forgotten about this one. View attachment 11055

Oh yes now we are talking

 

[tictoc]

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.

 

[Icacos]

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.

For shame! Were you cooking for yourself?

My walking companion declared that she was not going to cook at all while on our Camino junket. Aside from little picnics we had on the path with groceries we bought, we ate all our meals in bars and restaurants, and had many wonderful meals. I don't eat meat, but the seafood was great, and the salads superb.

 

[bystander]

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.

I cannot imagine what you were eating whilst you were in Spain, or what your past culinary experiences have been, to have come up with an opinion like that!

My gast is totally flabbered!

 

[Magwood]

I would have to nominate this plate full of mini sandwiches, served up as a free tapa with my glass of wine in Tui on the camino Portuguese. No need to buy supper that night!

 

[Kanga]

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.

So how about elBuli? Consistently Michelin 3 starred restaurant considered by many food writers and chefs the best restaurant in the world and Ferran Aria, the head chef, a genius. Customers came from all over the world specifically to eat there, and had to make a reservation over 12 months in advance. Sadly it closed in 2011.

Don't expect good cooking if you eat the Pilgrim Menu at 6 or 7 pm, when no Spaniard would dream of eating and which is dished up as cheaply as possible. If you are paying peanuts you often get peanuts.

 

[Theatregal]

Wonderful meals in restaurants, albergues and cafes ~ small, large, shared, solo ~ coffee stop treats ~ lunchtime picnics ~ throughout both caminos. This plate from a wonderful tapas bar in Navarette was memorable and of course, the iconic ensalada mixta.

 

[angulero]

Fabas con almejas.

Patatas rellenas.

 

[angulero]

Pulpo

Mejillones

Jamón asado

Arroz con pulpo

Almejas a la marinera

Calamares

 

[Al the optimist]

Shoot. And here I am cooking lamb shank for lunch. Roll on the end of August!

 

[nidarosa]

I can't find my pic of the holy trinity of pimientos de Padrón, spicy zorza and a cold Estella ... but I thought I'd add the mental picture you are all seeing right now!

 

[xin loi]

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.

 

[xin loi]

Forgot--What did you pay for Tapas? Most we were charged was 5 euros per tapa in small bar; received one free tapa per beer in a few bars.

 

[Caminomary525]

And was I surprised at this course as part of the menu del dia at Los Reyes de Jamon in Logrono.


I didn't recognize the Spanish name of the dish as recited by the waitress so I asked what it was. She pointed at her hip which was fine since the restaurant specialized in ham. Believe me what was on the plate didn't come from anywhere near that pig's hip. More near to his boots.. But the cardon first course was wonderful!

 

[Kanga]

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.

Depends on whether you are using a browser or a mobile app. On the browser you "upload a file". On the app there is a small photo icon (on mine anyway). Keep looking - you'll find it.

 

[Kanga]

Another thread reminded me of this. Chocolate and freshly made, hot churros.

 

[Theatregal]

Had a lovely meal (mostly) in Santiago last week in celebration of the completion of the Camino Ingles. The ingredient on top of my avacado / tomato salad was a surprise. And I'm not talking about the olives. The waiter said it was fish. Later I found out exactly what it was - Angulas (baby eels). Never had them before and probably never will again At the same meal, the best flan I've ever had!

 

[Al the optimist]

Another thread reminded me of this. Chocolate and freshly made, hot churros. View attachment 12235

Kanga we are of a like mind.