Food Fridays - Prague

Czech food feels like it was created to fill people up on a cold winter's eve.  The meat is heavy and sounds freshly hunted (duck, wild boar, even deer).  The bread dumplings are starchy, sauce-soaked delights.  The vegetables are either root vegetables or pickled to last.  There's no skimping on the salt and spices either.  Sitting down to a Czech meal means sitting down to a very hearty feast!

This is a trdelnik (I call it a "turtleneck") and it is made from wrapping dough around a stick and then rolling it over open flames.  This a plain cinnamon one, but they can also come filled with an assortment of sweet stuff like ice cream or Nutella.

It's been a while since I've had real mint and ginger tea.  This one even came with a little jar of honey too.

Roasted duck breast with enoki mushrooms, soya sprouts, radicchio, spring onion, and curried rice

Czech ham with cream sauce and white asparagus  

Roast pork with cabbage and bread dumplings

Wild boar goulash with dumplings

Czech beer is good and cheap and gives German beer a run for its money

Trio of sausages, bread, purple onions, and mustard

Pork knuckle of young pig on a bed of mashed potatoes

Flank steak and grilled vegetables

Chocolate cheesecake with honeyed nuts and blueberry coulis