FOOD

My today´s essay is about food. It consist of a few smaller topics like a breakfast, lounch and dinner, features of eating habits, food in Slovakia in compare with American and English food, drinking and my favourite food ever.

My breakfast

I have breakfast ussualy at nine or ten o´clock at the weekend. During the school I don´t have time for breakfast. So I snack at school at nine o´clock. My traditional weekend breakfast mostly consist of sausages with kechup or mustard, some buns and rolls with butter, cheese, ham and some vegetables, hard boiled egg or ham and eggs. In my opinion these dishes are most suitable for breakfast and are most frequently served in Slovakia every day. I eat my breakfast most likely with my mum in the kitchen. Not in my room or in the different place, because in my opinion breakfast is main meal during the day. In the kitchen I can eat in peace as long as I want and I can enjoy my breakfast.

My lunch

I had lunch in school canteen for six years, but now I have lunch only at home or I buy something when I walk home, If I am very hungry. I have lunch at two or three PM, when I arrive home. My lunch and lunch in most of the slovak families consist of some soup and main dish. Soup may be chicken or vegetable and main dish may be fried chicken, some meat with rice, potatoes or pasta with some sauce. I eat lunch in my room, when I am sitting in front of television or computer. I know, that it is considered as uncomfortable by many people, but for me it is quite comfortable, because I don´t consider lunch as a main meal during the day and I eat it faster than breakfast.

My dinner

I don´t eat so much for dinner. Ussualy I take some roll with butter, joghurt or cup of milk. Sometimes, when I am very hungry I take leftovers of lunch. But only sometimes. I don´t know how do other people eat dinner or what do they eat. Some people have dinner always at six or seven PM and they eat together with family, but I don´t. I dine when I am hungry, without my mum. She dines ussualy later than me.


Eating habits

People use set of cutlery to eat something. Basic cutlery consist of tablespoon, fork and knife. But we know many kinds of spoons, forks and knives that are used for eating different kinds of food. Cutlery we know today came to light only in 17. century.

By bon ton cutlery has to be placed like this: The fork left of the plate, by spikes up
The knife right of the plate, by blade to plate
The spoon left of the plate, by bottom at table The dessert cutler up to plate
* Some of cutler´s parts belong to small plate under the cup of tea or coffee (tea spoon, mocca spoon).

Meal consist of starter (f.e. salad), soup, main dish and dessert (f.e. cake). At home, we have always soup and main dish, sometimes dessert. In restaurant or at special opportunity like anniversary, wedding or birthday we can eat all these meals maybe with special set of cutlery.


Food in Slovakia

Every country has some traditional food. Slovakia isn´t an exemption. In Slovakia bread with salt was meal, that was the biggest compliment how to revere guests in the past. Somebody can tell, that it is a traditional slovak food. But I think no. Creamy soups and side dishes like a „sour potatoes“, hedge garlic, creamy onion soup and so forth are very popular in Slovakia. Our traditional main dish is tiny potato pancake with goose meal or „pirohy“ with marmelade, curd cheese, apples or with potato filing and chive, which is traditional Eastern Slovak dish. Pirohy looks like large Italien pasta called raviolli.