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If you can find a traditional churreria you absolutely MUST try chocolate con churros. Hot, long fried pieces of dough, (sprinkled with sugar if you want), accompanied by a cup of hot melted chocolate to dip the churros in!!!Well I fly out of Melbourne Australia on the 2nd of September to start walking my 1st Camino on the 5th, can't wait to get there. Anyway I have a serious sweet tooth and was wondering if there are particularly delicious things I should try along the way.
I see people talking about octopus, jamon and the much maligned bocadillo but I am after sugar only of course for the energy it can provide you understand.
Delicious! Good for second or third breakfast....... chocolate con churros. Hot, long fried pieces of dough.....accompanied by a cup of hot melted chocolate to dip the churros in!!!
Just look for a bakery or cafe they are everywhere...sweets abound! Everything is good. Try the gourmet chocolate in Astorga I think there is a chocolate museum there not far from the main squareWell I fly out of Melbourne Australia on the 2nd of September to start walking my 1st Camino on the 5th, can't wait to get there. Anyway I have a serious sweet tooth and was wondering if there are particularly delicious things I should try along the way.
I see people talking about octopus, jamon and the much maligned bocadillo but I am after sugar only of course for the energy it can provide you understand.
Ah, but it would be so much "sweeter" to just take an actual bite.Tarta de Santiago once you are there is delicious.
A resturant in Cizur Menor had an excellent tarta de queso.
I've attached a cookie cutter you can use to keep others from trying to snag your treats.
Even the national big brand "Valor" bars are vastly superior, by a wide mile, to anything sold in markets in US.There is high-quality artisanal chocolate everywhere in Spain. Avoid the commercial stuff.
The USA New Jersey is not a copy of Jersey, it is a beautiful state named after the British island. New York is nothing like York, New Britain is nothing like Britain, and New South Wales is nothing like south Wales. The names honor and remember where the original European settlers/invaders came from.Some great chocolate along the way, fresh orange juice, cakes! Lots of temptations don't worry
Is that Mont St Michel in your avatar pic? I grew up not far from there, in Jersey. The real Jersey, not that US copy
And if you are really lucky you will run into the crepe lady (I believe she's in Frómista). In a back lane, she will serve you crepes warm from the oven, sprinkled with sugar, while you stand amid cow dung, all for a small donativo. A truly not-to-be-missed experience!
Calm down dear, it was only a jest I'm sure! And, by the way, the "real Jersey" as @Robo called it isn't a British island.The USA New Jersey is not a copy of Jersey, it is a beautiful state named after the British island. New York is nothing like York, New Britain is nothing like Britain, and New South Wales is nothing like south Wales. The names honor and remember where the original European settlers/invaders came from.
Link not working Kanga or is it me?Confitería! Pastelería! Turrón, chocolaté on churros .......
Try this link to get a virtual sample of a confitería, and what it offers.
The USA New Jersey is not a copy of Jersey, it is a beautiful state named after the British island. New York is nothing like York, New Britain is nothing like Britain, and New South Wales is nothing like south Wales. The names honor and remember where the original European settlers/invaders came from.
Thank you very much! I couldn’t be sure of the name of the town other than it started with ‘F.’ And I couldn’t find my camino guide book, which keeps disappearing on me.It is not in Fromista, but in Fonfría, between O'Cebreiro and Triacastela. On a cold rainy day a very special treat.
I'd support most of the suggestions above - look out for the flaming orange coloured chocolate in Astorga - but as for the infamous Tart of SantiagoIt can get quite dry and hard but I understand that if you stab it with a strong enough fork and pour Orujo over it then it's more palatable (stands back and awaits the wave of opprobrium to wash over him) and I think it might make a suitable substitute for a Vibram sole.
If it's oppobrium you want here it is!
How dare you denegrate the not quite cake, not quite biscuit wonder that is TdS! As walking fuel washed down with a cafe con leche at first or second breakfast it really can't be beat.
Is that Mont St Michel in your avatar pic? I grew up not far from there, in Jersey. The real Jersey, not that US copy
Just don't arrive in Astoria on a Monday. Oh the horror of it. A Gaudi museum AND a chocolate museum, both closed for the day! I nearly cried!!Don't forget the chocolate museum in Astorga when you pass through! So many excellent chocolate shops there Yummm!
I am calm. Only wanting to clarify. And I am not either touchy! And thank you for clarifying, too! New Jersey has a bad reputation derived from two vast highways lined with industry that run the length of it, and that corridor is indeed very ugly. The northwest and southeast corners are mostly quite beautiful. But I much prefer New England, which not like England. The bakeries here in New London aren't very exciting, sad to say.Calm down dear, it was only a jest I'm sure! And, by the way, the "real Jersey" as @Robo called it isn't a British island.
It is one of the Channel Islands and part of the Duchy of Normandy under the Duke of Normandy , currently HM Queen Elizabeth II.
Islanders can get touchy about these things!
I am calm. Only wanting to clarify. And I am not either touchy! And thank you for clarifying, too! New Jersey has a bad reputation derived from two vast highways lined with industry that run the length of it, and that corridor is indeed very ugly. The northwest and southeast corners are mostly quite beautiful. But I much prefer New England, which not like England. The bakeries here in New London aren't very exciting, sad to say.
On my trosset de cami in Catalunya, my best find was Eroski's huge store-brand dark chocolate bar with whole hazelnuts. 1.55€!
Wait! The queen is a duke??!
Some great chocolate along the way, fresh orange juice, cakes! Lots of temptations don't worry
Is that Mont St Michel in your avatar pic? I grew up not far from there, in Jersey. The real Jersey, not that US copy
OMG yes! Now drooling over keyboard!Hopefully link fixed. Here it is again.
All depends on the season... One of my favorite walks was in the spring of 2011 and eating cherries as they became ripe!! Amazing!There were plenty of unhealthy white flour baked stuff but as a healthier options loving pelegrinos we loved to have some dates on the way or buy some local fruits as sweet treats in local fruterias. My favourites include figues, mango, cactus fruit. And however weirdly it sounds we also loved spanish tomatoes almost just as much as our sweat treats
I trust you purchased those cherries and didn’t get them out of some farmer’s field.All depends on the season... One of my favorite walks was in the spring of 2011 and eating cherries as they became ripe!! Amazing!
Robo it is Mont St Michel in France, hoping to visit the other one in a year or two.
Never. Been married to some one in Ag for 40 years!! My respect for farmers goes deep. People just taking from fields made me crazy. Would they walk into a bodega and just pick up something and begin eating it without paying? I don't think so!!I trust you purchased those cherries and didn’t get them out of some farmer’s field.
And "wild" apples in Galicia from trees on the Camino side of the boundary walls.Brighton, New Brighton, and on Staten Island in New York Harbor, there is West New Brighton! Wheee!
Another roadside treat is wild figs. Not the farmed ones, the escaped ones. The wild pomegranates were too tart for me. Hedge almonds, wild blackberries, and ice cream when I got into town (Girona).
"Her Madg"!! Wow.
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