picos mestizo wrote:Sounds great to me Simon.
Shame the chips are not the hand cut Picos variety to go with the Long horn Steak & eggs.
4th/5th June would be our available weekend for Breakfast & a run with the locals.
How's the Off / On tarmac Mountain route -Bilbao to Tremp- coming along & how do I get a Password to access it? (thumbs)
Yup, I didn't have the eggs and chips version, but
revuelto con morcilla, which is scrambled eggs with black pudding crumbled into it. (thumbs)
But you're right about the chips although they're even better in Galicia - there's a local dialect word for them that I can't put my finger on and when I tried to google it I go this
on-line shop, so get your order* in Brian! (thumbs)
Regs
Simon
* we get ours every winter from an funny old farmer from near Llavorsi, way up in the Pyrenees. People just call then 'mountain potatoes' and there is nothing to beat them - Polly collected this year's batch last week and carefully laid them up in an old chest of drawers for the winter (thumbs)
WillS wrote:picos mestizo wrote:WillS wrote:The Spanish "Breakfast" is served with extra toast Simon !! :whistle:
Luxury.
At most of the truck stops & Hostals, the breakfast is ONLY toast
& great coffee
Yes agree the famous "tostada" in the morning, but this was the first time Egg & Bacon with Chips for Breakfast, one of Simon's famous haunts. But was really good.. (thumbs)
Yup '
tostada' really is crap. Much better to have a croissant or a
madelina cake. But what I call breakfast you'd never get in a hotel - you have to ride in the cold morning air for a few hours to build up an appetite for gut busters like these at my
local:
A quick Translation:
Ox tail stew
Pigs trotters
Veal tripe
Meatballs with cuttlefish
Grilled whole cuttlefish
Cod steaks in a tomato sauce with garlic - lots of garlic!!!
Baby squids in brandy sauce
Tortilla of whatever kind you want
Scrambled eggs with garlic shoots
Ditto with smoked salmon - my favourite
Salted 'herrings' served with fried garlic cloves
Pork loin in marsala sauce
Pork sausage - that's 100% lean meat, pork belly slice or spicy sausage with either baked beans (the white ones, not in tomato sauce like Heinz), or grilled tomatoes, or chips or eggs - or, if Mario is more than usually manic - all of them!
Black pudding varieties; either with onions or rice - the latter normally
Burgos which is also very peppery.
Snails in sauce - not my favourite!
Pork belly with pigs tripe - in a sauce that usually also has chickpeas in it.
Broad beans with octopus with a more conventional 'British' bangers.
Shall I take your orders now sirs?
Back on topic - at last I hear you cry! - you can find it here is you have a Garmin: N41 07.080 E1 15.497 :whistle:
Regs
Simon
PS neither of you spotted the real difference: wine with your breakfast at 09.00 and a long ride home - even after all these years here I still can't face that one!
