Hello world!! This is my very first blog. My blog is going to be about food, food and more food. I love food and I love to eat delicious and well made (Scrumptious) food! I will be writing about anything from meals that I've made for myself at home, food I make at work, recipes I love or a simple single ingredient that is in season. I love reading other people's food blogs and I want to start one myself! So this first blog will be about my trip to the Czech Republic. My parents emigrated to Canada from the former Czechoslovakia in the late 1970's; so that means that all of my family, except parents, live there. I usually take a trip there every year if I can.
My family lives in Brno, the second largest city, after Prague. It is less touristy and it gives you chance to see how the Czechs live in Moravia.
My first dinner with my family was at a restaurant that I have been to now twice, and is quite delicious, but I can't remember the name! My favorite dish is the goose liver (foie gras) with apples and walnuts, just delicious! I had already started eating before I took the picture, plus I was drinking wine...
This was an appetizer. For my main course I had fried trout coated with bread crumbs and almonds. This came with mashed potatoes, studded with caraway seeds, a favorite spice of Eastern Europe, and a mixture of vegetables. Let me tell you, it is very hard to choose what to eat at any Czech restaurant because the menus are usually huge! I wonder how the cooks do it? It also makes me question the freshness of ingredients! For a lot of our meals, we ended up eating in hospodas, which are pubs that serve traditional Czech cuisine. Popular items are roast pork with dumplings and sauerkraut, fried cheese served with tartar sauce, goulash, and svickova, a roast beef dish served with a beautiful roast root vegetable sauce, and dumplings. I don't usually drink beer at all, but this is the place I will drink and enjoy it! The Czechs have the best and cheapest beer in the world. Pilsner, Budweiser, all towns in the Czech Rep.! Beer costs cheaper in restaurants than pop, so why not buy it! There are also beautiful breads and pastries that I love so much! Their normal bread is made of rye flower and is usually full of caraway seeds. The pastries are usually full of nuts and/or marzipan. Yummy!
The only thing that bothers me is that the food, though delicious, can be quite heavy and is very rich. So if you are eating out a lot make sure you give your body a break and eat a salad once in a while, you're sure to find one in those huge menus! So if you get a chance to travel to Europe one day, make sure you make the Czech Republic, the heart of Europe, one of your stops. Dobrou chout'!
My family lives in Brno, the second largest city, after Prague. It is less touristy and it gives you chance to see how the Czechs live in Moravia.
My first dinner with my family was at a restaurant that I have been to now twice, and is quite delicious, but I can't remember the name! My favorite dish is the goose liver (foie gras) with apples and walnuts, just delicious! I had already started eating before I took the picture, plus I was drinking wine...
This was an appetizer. For my main course I had fried trout coated with bread crumbs and almonds. This came with mashed potatoes, studded with caraway seeds, a favorite spice of Eastern Europe, and a mixture of vegetables. Let me tell you, it is very hard to choose what to eat at any Czech restaurant because the menus are usually huge! I wonder how the cooks do it? It also makes me question the freshness of ingredients! For a lot of our meals, we ended up eating in hospodas, which are pubs that serve traditional Czech cuisine. Popular items are roast pork with dumplings and sauerkraut, fried cheese served with tartar sauce, goulash, and svickova, a roast beef dish served with a beautiful roast root vegetable sauce, and dumplings. I don't usually drink beer at all, but this is the place I will drink and enjoy it! The Czechs have the best and cheapest beer in the world. Pilsner, Budweiser, all towns in the Czech Rep.! Beer costs cheaper in restaurants than pop, so why not buy it! There are also beautiful breads and pastries that I love so much! Their normal bread is made of rye flower and is usually full of caraway seeds. The pastries are usually full of nuts and/or marzipan. Yummy!
The only thing that bothers me is that the food, though delicious, can be quite heavy and is very rich. So if you are eating out a lot make sure you give your body a break and eat a salad once in a while, you're sure to find one in those huge menus! So if you get a chance to travel to Europe one day, make sure you make the Czech Republic, the heart of Europe, one of your stops. Dobrou chout'!
