Food from Eastern Europe

When I think about food from Eastern Europe I think meat potatoes and cabbage.

This is beef goulash, with potato dumplings (two kinds) and horseradish.

Cheese is also popular in Europe - this is a cheese platter I had in Prague in the Czech Republic.

In Poland the made dumpling type dishes with vegetables or meat, they call these prorogues. They were really tasty, these below are meat with onion and herbs on top.

Below is chicken in Budapest in Hungary - the use paprika a lot in their cooking. This is a paprika chicken dish.

Vienna in Austria is known for it's cakes and coffee. Below is a special coffee with milk and whipped cream that is famous in Vienna.

This is a cake a bit like tiramisu that I had in Vienna, the choice of cakes and tarts was amazing, so many types.

Above is the famous Viennese schnitzel with boiled potato and herbs.  

Food the German way

German food is largely based around meat and often pork. They make lots of types of sausages. They don't just fry them but often boil them.

 

3 types of sausage with potato and cabbage

I have also had Wiener Snitchel which is meat in a breadcrumb and cooked.

 

Wiener Snitchel with crispy potato and red berry sauce

The markets are also interesting some even sold just one thing like potatoes. Lots of different breads, cheeses, meats, sausages and beer.

All different kinds of potatoes

 

 

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French and Swiss food

In France they know how to do food, I have eaten so much yummy food. Croissants for breakfast with coffee each morning. To beef red wine stew, chocolate moose, pastries, omelettes, snails, frogs legs etc. it has been an adventure. 

Cheese and wine at a cafe in the gardens - the French serve baguette with every meal.

Creme brûlée - this was so Devine crunchy on top and smooth and creamy and sweet 

Snails - in butter, garlic parsley sauce

To prove I ate them - tricky to get out of their shells, taste a bit like cooked mussels.

Mini eclairs - vanilla, chocolate and coffee

Chicken quiche - very creamy and full of flavour, lots of cheese

Fruit tart with fresh fruit, on a cake base, with custard and glazed, this was so delicious, I can't find the right words to describe it.

Salmon with a bernaise suce with potatoes my friend has a French omelette 

I then went to Switzerland for the weekend - two words for there cheese and chocolate.

This is Raclette a Swiss cheese meal where you grill the cheese on the table individually and the add it to potato and other foods. Google this it is worth it. 

Coffee and chocolate truffles, this was a cafe that has been serving chocolate for hundreds of years.

Crepes, really a French food but I was very close to the French border, this had salted butter and caramel.

We went to Gruyeres a town famous for cheese, this is one of their 35 kg wheels of cheese. 

Finally more cheese - fondue totally Swiss food it is very filling and you don't drink cold drinks when you eat this as it may harden the cheese in your stomach.

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English food is probably not too different to Aussie food that we have.

 

English Steak and ale pie

 

A quote from the kitchen in Hampton Court palace

Dinning in times gone by.... The king's private dinning room in Hampton court palace

 

A display of table decorations from the past

One of the places many of the English will go to eat is the local pub which there are many in all areas of the city or town. They offer all sorts of meals. It really is a rather social event going down to the local.

 

Lunch at an English Pub

 

Cornish pastie

Cornish pasties come in different styles, this one is a steak and ale.

Cornish pastie

 

Cornish pastie

Pies of all sorts on offer

 

This pie stall at a market at Stratford upon Avon had some unusual pies

I went to the house of Shakespeare's mother (where she grew up) it is celebrating 500 years this year. They had the kitchen and outdoor oven just as it would have been 500 years ago.

Making bread the old fashioned way

 

Kitchen from hundreds of years ago

Outdoor oven

 

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Ok so here is my first food blog. This one I found in Bangkok airport lovely Durian chips and dried Durian. If you have never had This fruit before you are probably lucky, it smells really bad and really strong and the flavour is horrible (but some people love it). It is just not something that we get in Australia all that often.

 

 

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The food adventure begins....

This blog was an idea of sharing a cultural food adventure with the students at school where I work. I endeavour to find different foods along my travels and share them here along the way. I this may also create a unique memory of my adventures.

 

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