Spain2013 (1b) - Food in Cuenca

First of all, we all agreed that the best bread we had in this trip was from the Parador in Cuenca. It is just a simple whole wheat bread with a almost nutty flavor, not the kind overpowered with sugar and milk. Cuenca also has a unique kind of sweets - a sticky sweet paste with almonds.  The paste is flavored with orange peel and sandwitched between edible papers. It is very strong stuff but it really goes well with the strong Spanish cofe solo. Unfortunately, we didn't have any photo of them.
The meal in the Parador was just great:
It started with all the good people:

 

 

Fish on squid ink noddle with saffron sauce.

Fish two ways:

 

Pork chops (I didn't try it but regretted a few days later. Pork tastes gooood in Spain) :

And ? (I can still remember that the sauce is chorizo flavored):

 

Can't finished a meal without a dessert: the sauce on the log has a preserved plum flavor, very interesting, in a good way.

 

The next morning, Champagne buffet: a lot of signature Spanish dishes in very very small portion.

The left top melon was just delicious. The Santa Clause melon that you can find in the States comes very close to it. Baba didn't have any of the melon because he forgot he was in Spain.

Various cold cut meats, cheeses and quince: (I just can't get enough of the Spanish ham.)

 

Ignored the donuts. The white triangles are the special local sweets.

 

Just a reminder that how tasty simply fried eggs can be.

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