Food

When in Spain, eat like the Spanish! The food has been cheap, varied and plentiful. The pilgrims menu usually includes wine or water and has a choice of starters, mains and pud. First night I chose turnip tops, which were greens really in a melted cheese sauce piled into a pastry shell which was delicious, followed by two skewers of steak and veg, also very tasty. Two nights ago I chose a Waldorf salad which wasn't, so I swapped half way through with David who had a much tastier looking green beans and bacon starter. My main was called fish casserole, and was a big hunk of hake in a tomato sauce with a couple of clams and shrimps keeping it company. Pud was cold rice pudding, nice but I prefer it hot. 

Last night I started with a yummy pasta carbonara, then had salmon a la plache and chips followed by a slice of Santiago tart. 

Tonight is still a mystery but we are a place called Melide and apparently one of the best-known dishes served in Melide is its octopus. 

And I'm looking out for this stuff too. The first thing that visitors notice on reaching the town’s historic centre is its delicious smell. The traditional ovens in the centre of the town are filled each day with melindres (sugar-topped pastries), amendoados (almond cakes) and ricos, a butter-based pastry flavoured with aniseed made exclusively in the town.

Yum! 

PS.... We did do octopus and then pizza!