Food and cooking

MY FAVOURITE FOOD

It's really hard to decide what food is my favourite because there is a lot of food I really like and love but if I had to choose it'll be probably a grilled meat (fish, chicken, beef, pork..) with mashed potatoes or food I'm making a lot and it has no name - it's a fried rice with meat and vegetable in an egg omelette. It is super simple to make, very delicious and quite healthy.

MY FAVOURITE CZECH FOOD (+ recipe)

My favourite Czech food is a cutlet with potato salad. It is simple and for me extra delicious.

You'll need:

• cutlet (whatever kind of meat you prefer)
• potatoes
• cucumbers (sour ones) - sliced
• carrot - sliced
• mayonnaise
• salt
• pepper 
• breadcrumbs
• oil

For salad : Firstly you need to boil your potatoes but IN peel - then you will peel them and mash them into a mixing bowl. Than you add mayonnaise, cucumbers, carrots, salt and pepper (it all depends on taste).

For cutlet: Firstly you need to tenderize your cutlet. Than you salt it and wrap it in breadcrumbs. Final step is to fry it on your pan with oil.

MY FAVOURITE DRINK:

I don't have the most favourite drink, but I really like juices (especially apple and orange), teas, kofola and cocoa.

 

TYPICAL CZECH CUISINE AND TABLE MANNERS:

Our czech cuisine contains mainly fat food (roastbeef, roasted goose, sauces, dumplings..) and people drink with this food mainly beer. I'm not sure about table manners (if there are some) but in our country it is common to eat with family or friends. People usually start with a soup (sometimes with starter), continue with main food and sometimes finish with desert.

 

I WOULD NEVER EAT AND DRINK:

I would never eat tomatoes and cumin - when I eat it I feel really sick. And I don't drink alcohol because I don't find it tasty.

MY SPECIALTY (+ recipe):

I don't know if it actually is my specialty but my family loves my pancakes. They are simple and I make them quite often because I love sweet things.

You'll need:

• flour (2cups)
• sugar (2spoons)
• eggs (2x)
• warm milk (1 and 1/2 cup)
• salt

Mix all these ingredients into a mixing bowl until your dough is all smooth and than you star fry it on your frying pan with oil and flip it after about 7minutes (until your pancakes turn gold/brown). The last step is to let them chill and than you put a marmelade on or whipped cream, nutella - whatever you like.


If I had to choose with whom would go for dinner, it would definitely be my boyfriend, my best friend and my mother and the reason is simple - They mean the world to me and I appretiate every second with them.

 

Vocabulary:

dough - těsto

starter - předkrm

cumin - kmín
mayonnaise - majonéza
breadcrumbs - strouhanka
wrap - obalit
boil - vařit
tenderize - naklepat
sliced - nakrájené