Ah, the food. First of all, every day we have breakfast
provided for us and every day it is pastries. The pastries have been different
but they are always pastries. Some of them have had cheese, some fruit filling,
but all this week they had cheese, corn, peppers and ham. One of the girls from
UNC, Carly, is gluten intolerant so she cannot have the pastries but every day
she would ask how they were. I didn’t realize that every day I would answer the
same: interesting. Not that they are bad but one thing I miss is my breakfasts:
oatmeal, eggs, waffles.
We are also provided lunch every day. We go to the same restaurant
every day for a week and get the daily special. (Side note for potential
travelers: Lithuanian restaurants will have a daily lunch special that is less
expensive than the regular menu. The thing is, the sign is only in Lithuanian
so tourists will buy off the main menu but locals will buy the daily special
and spend less money.) Most of the time what we eat consists of four things:
meat, sauce, potatoes, and a cabbage salad (with cucumbers). One of my
favorites was a pork chop with a bright green sauce. I am not sure what it was
but someone said it may have been spinach sauce. Today we got a dish that was
very different than what we have gotten before. I am fairly certain that it is
what they call Chicken Kiev. It reminded me of Chicken Cordon Bleu but not
quite as tasty because in the center it just has oil rather than cheese. Also,
instead of the cabbage salad it was some sort of beet root salad. Lastly, we
had French fries instead of mashed potatoes! They were actually very good!
A couple nights ago we went out to dinner with some first
year Lithuanian ISM students. They took us to a restaurant called Forto Dvaras
that serves traditional Lithuanian food. First we had a mushroom soup that is
served in a rye bread bowl. Then I ordered a dish that was some sort of potato
casserole with chicken wings baked inside. The soup was really good but the
main dish left something to be desired.
We have also started doing some family style dinners with the Portuguese students that are staying in our hostel. Last night they cooked for us and it was really good. It was some sort of meat with sauce over rice. They told us after that it was not really a recipe they just threw it all together. Either way it was good. My only complaint is that the Portuguese eat really late. They had dinner ready to go at 10:30 p.m. whereas normally we are ready for dinner at 7 p.m. Tonight we are having American food and we decided that we were going to make tacos! I am fairly certain that no one other than the Americans had ever had a taco so we have had to explain what tacos and tortillas are to everyone. To finish it off next week we will have Ukrainian night. I hope I have made everyone sufficiently hungry. Bon Appetit!
That's not oil, that's molten butter!
ReplyDeleteAre you talking about the chicken kiev? I was told that it was oil and it didn't really taste like butter. Either way.
DeleteI was wondering if you would use your gourmet food setting on your camera to take pictures of the food. I like it:)
ReplyDeleteI have not been using the gourmet food setting, I apologize.
DeleteLol I should have warned you other places aren't keen on breakfast people I talk to from europe all still think its so weird to eat so big like we do first thing in the morning
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