Food

At first I will tell you something about my eating habits. I usually eat five times a day. The first meal of my day is my breakfast which I make every day. I am used to have breakfast at seven o’clock during the schools days. I like to have for it something light and healthy. Most often I have cereals, fruit and honey in cottage cheese or in milk. Sometimes I prepare porridge with fruit.
The second meal I make at home in the morning but I have it till at school during a break at ten or eleven o’clock. I usually have a slice of brown bread and cheese and some fruits or vegetables.
At about two o’clock p.m. I have lunch at school canteen. Our school canteen is about five minutes of walking far from the school. I can choose from two meals. I like a lot chicken meat and rice or some sweat dish like dumplings with fruit and cottage cheese.
Next meal I have at home when I am hungry. It is usually at about five o’clock. At this time I like eating some pasta and a lot of cheese or pizza, some toast or some bread and vegetables.
For last meal of my day I usually have some yoghurt and fruits. I have it at about eight o’clock.
I haven’t got any favourite meal because I like a lot of meals.
    If  I have a taste for something I usually can cook it or I read a recipe in a cookery book. Cooking is my hobby. I will give you a recipe for tasty but very easy meal – potatoe cakes.
        You need potatoes, flour, garlic, bread, eggs, oil, marjoram and salt.
        At first peel and grate the potatoes. Then put them in a bowl, squeeze out the water and add                 the others ingredients – eggs, flour and bread, mashed garlic. Finally sprinkle salt, marjoram                and everything mix. Now the batter is ready. Prepare a pan, pour some oil on it and heat it. On the hot pan,  pour potatoe batter and fry it on the both sides. Now I can tell you only “Enjoy your meal!”
    Now I would like to say something about our national dish and typical Czech cuisine.
Our national meal is roast pork and dumplings (they can be bread or potatoe) and cabbage or caver crowds. The national drink especially for this meal is beer. I think Czech beer is known all over the world. The other typical dish is beef sirloin in cream sauce and bread dumplings. It is usually decorated by a slice of citron, cranberries and cream. Typical old Czech cuisine is very unhealthy. You can find there only fat pork meat, a lot of flour and no vegetables. Nowadays Czech cuisine is similar to British cuisine. It consists more of lean meat like chicken and fish and more vegetables.
    If I were compare eating habits in Great Britain and in Czech Republic I would say that British one are still healthier. British people are used to eat five or six times a day. Some Czech people eat only once or twice a day. In Great Britain they are never in a hurry when they eat. Typical English breakfast is very famous. They start every day with a glass of juice and then they make eggs, bacon, sausages, toasts and tomatoes or spicy beans in one pan. They usually continue with dried buttered toast and citrus jam.
The second meal of the British day is elevenses in the middle of the morning. It is consists of cup of strong black tea or coffee and some biscuits.
At weekends when they get up late they have brunch. It is a combination of breakfast and lunch.
Midday dish is called lunch and it is light, for example sandwiches, pizza, hamburgers or soup.
It is very different from Czech lunch which is main dish of the day and very often we have it at school or work canteens or in a restaurant. It is consists of three courses-soup, main course and some dessert.
At about four o’clock British have teatime. Traditional tea means thin slice of buttered bread and cheese, fish or ham and vegetables, cakes, pies or biscuits and of course tea. Tea and coffee is drunk wit milk to not to be so strong.
Hot dinner is served around seven o’clock. It has four courses-soup or some other starter, main dish, dessert and finally cheese and biscuits. For the main course British usually have meat and vegetables. They prefer beef, mutton, fish and chicken to pork meat.
Later in the evening they can eat sandwiches, bread or cakes and biscuits as a supper.
    National meal in Great Britain is mutton chop and potatoes and Brussels sprout in a mint sauce. As national dessert they eat Yorkshire pudding and onion sauce.
    I would like also compare British and Czech Christmas meals. At Christmas in Czech Republic we eat fried carp and potatoes salad, somebody eat fish soup. British eat roast turkey with chestnut stuffing and potatoes.
    In the present fast food restaurants are very popular. You can have there meal during a short while. But meal which is prepared there is unhealthy and everything tastes similar. Typical meal for fast food restaurants is hamburger and chips. Sometimes I also visit some fast food restaurant, especially if I am somewhere in large town and don’t have much time to have lunch. I prefer going to classis restaurants especially pizzerias to fast food restaurants.