What I ate on my travels

[robjh]

This one is for @Dayvo - last week I couldn't remember the name of the flat potato breads that we ate while traveling through Norway a few years back. Well luckily I have a photo, and here they are, lomper. Also in the picture are some brown cheese, pickled herring and particularly smoky salamis.

and when we got fed up with shop-bought food, there was always this

and this

Show us what interesting stuff you've eaten on your trips.

 

[Hill Wimp]

I suppose i could post all the posts from last years HilsHop summer food and drink tour of Holland and Belgium again

Pickled herring

 

[TVC]

Pickled herring

 

[robjh]

I suppose i could post all the posts from last years HilsHop summer food and drink tour of Holland and Belgium again

Stroopwaffels?

 

[robjh]

You do like a salami don't you Rob. I thought I had a photo of you brandishing your salamis at the PieFest, but I can't find it .

Don't, it got @Fab Foodie all a-tremble at the picnic, we don't want to set the whole forum alight

 

[Fab Foodie]

Don't, it got @Fab Foodie all a-tremble at the picnic, we don't want to set the whole forum alight

I am quite partial ....

 

[gbb]

Having worked fairly extensively overseas...
Egypt...
Stuffed pigeon..

Falafel, half cooked eggs, some lentil type muck i couldnt bring myself to try....the list goes on. Lovely people, awful food for my untrained stomach.
Uruguay...THE most bland, boring, tasteless food i ever had. I never had a decent feed there in 10 days
Cyprus.....THE most lovely food i ever had. Proper stuff, not holiday food.
I cant remember the names of the dishes, but..
A lamb stew...gawld, its lovely.
Kebab type pitta with slightly spicy sausage type meat Iinside...
A bread/almost Danish pastry type thing with olives in...smashing?
Even simple stuff like potatoes in olive oil and some herbs was awesome, so many dishes i used to love out there.
If you ever get a chance, visit a proper greek or cypriot taverna and sample proper food, Its sublime.

 

[Pat "5mph"]

Cyprus.....THE most lovely food i ever had. Proper stuff, not holiday food.

A bread/almost Danish pastry type thing with olives in

Eliopitta!

 

[Accy cyclist]

This one is for @Dayvo - last week I couldn't remember the name of the flat potato breads that we ate while traveling through Norway a few years back. Well luckily I have a photo, and here they are, lomper. Also in the picture are some brown cheese, pickled herring and particularly smoky salamis.
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and when we got fed up with shop-bought food, there was always this
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and this
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Show us what interesting stuff you've eaten on your trips.

Where's the five a day stuff?

 

[robjh]

Where's the five a day stuff?

well there are three fish in the photos - add a potato pancake and some brown cheese (and that's not cheese as we know it) and you have five.
Is that what you were thinking of?

 

[Accy cyclist]

well there are three fish in the photos - add a potato pancake and some brown cheese (and that's not cheese as we know it) and you have five.
Is that what you were thinking of?

Excuse the difference in scale.

 

[TheDoctor]

Well, there was that little lot in Apt. Afternoon tea, and having just done 60k on a Brompton with luggage, I felt I'd earned it.
A few days later, I had this in Sault. I'd nipped up Ventoux the day before, so again, it seemed justified.

I had the E17 menu, and the E21 bottle. And lo! I slept very well.

 

[robjh]

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Well, there was that little lot in Apt. Afternoon tea, and having just done 60k on a Brompton with luggage, I felt I'd earned it.
A few days later, I had this in Sault. I'd nipped up Ventoux the day before, so again, it seemed justified.
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I had the E17 menu, and the E21 bottle. And lo! I slept very well.

I hope that's not all you ate on your travels. An enjoyable but worryingly unbalanced diet I fear.

 

[TheDoctor]

Good lord no! That's all I took photos of. I agree, it's terribly unbalanced. No steaks, chips, pizzas, foie gras...
Hells teeth, there's not even a beer there!
It is actually a problem with solo touring. You end up having potentially a rather wierd diet, and a full bottle of wine every night.

 

[growingvegetables]

Show us what interesting stuff you've eaten on your trips.

Just be glad I travelled in the days LONG before digital photos! Some highlights (but just in words - you'll have to use your imaginations!)

- Stewed beaver in Ghana. [No, doesn't matter what the menu said, beavers don't live in Ghana. These were agouti (water rats) ... and delicious.]
- Basturma in Upper Egypt. [Think pastrami, with a thick black-peppered crust. But this was never beef - the best was made from donkey or camel meat.]
- Spatchcocked sparrows - also in Egypt; small, crunchy, and delicious. Freshly grilled by a street vendor on Ezebekiyah Square in Cairo. Damnit - the grilled crabs were superb too; small, and sweet.
- Sea Urchins in a beach cafe near Dakar, in Senegal, very briefly grilled. Exquisite.
- A perfectly normal lamb kebab beautifully cooked in a Cairo backstreet restaurant..... with a couple of sheep testicles slipped in for regular, respected customers. It's not just the flavour I remember, but the texture - and the "bite". The way they burst like meaty grapes in my mouth.
- Tripe in Yemeni soups. Sublime.
- "Elderly" mutton - wrapped in banana leaves, and very slow roasted in soil pits. Quite the most exquisitely tender and flavoursome meat I've ever tasted. In a lorry drivers' caff in Bajil, Yemen.
- Camel kebabs - a little tougher and gamier than sheep!
- Melokhia (Jews' Mallow), a green vegetable. Finely chopped and cooked with care, in a highly garlicked chicken/rabbit stock. Green. Gelatinous. A bowl of slimy snot. And delicious. A matter of personal pride, that I can cook it far better than my Arab ex-partner.

For those who may be feeling nauseous at my (lack of?) taste, there are a few things I have tried .... and won't ever touch again. No way. Never. Fesikh (Egyptian; fermented fish sauce). Guavas (vile; just vile). Kimchi. And Middlesborough's chicken parmo.