Hi everyone

It was sad saying goodbye to you all this morning, but I'd like to introduce Liam - you're going to have an absolutely fantastic time with him!


Hi Guys,

Hope you're having a good weekend. Looking forward to meeting you all on Monday. Hopefully I'll be looking better than this then.

Anything you'd like to do next week in terms of topics or language, just comment and I'll do my best.

See you Monday morning.

All the best,

Liam

Bobo shrimp

Brazil is a big country with a large number of cultures. And this contributes to the variety of food that we have.

I decided talk only about a region of Brazil, the northeast. There is the most influences of Africans and  indigenous population. So the food is very good. We eat a lot of seafood, and the most popular dish in Bhaia is the Bobo shrimp. Basically this dish is prepared with manioc, shrimp and palm oil.

I really recommend this dish... to me, is one of the best.

Barbecue

The Food in Sicily

The diet in London is very different than Sicily.
In Sicily,I usually have breakfast with caffe'latte and cerals.
At 13:30 for the lunch, I love eat pasta with tomatos sauce and later, I usually eat meat with salad.
After lunch, I drink an espresso coffe' ( every Italian drink it after lunch). The dinner is very similar to lunch.
My favourite dish is pasta with shellfish (like mussels and clams), tomatoes and basil.
If i had a English breakfast or a regular English diet , I would get a stomach ache.
In London there are many different types of food but I don't like it because is unhealthy for me.
I think that English people haven't fantasy and time for cook because they are always in a hurry.

{This dish was cooked by my mom 3 days before I travel to London}

I can't lie ... I'm italian and I love spaghetti , maccheroni, lasagne , ravioli and tortelloni. I love pasta in all the possible and imaginable way that God created. Because (we are sure) when God created women and man, animals, and trees etc, before resting - He created spaghetti with tomatoes and basil: for the humanity pleasure! However, I think that the Mediterranean diet is quite healthy, various and full of fruit and vegetables. Maybe we eat too much fat, but are “good fat” like extra virgin olive oil.

Now in London I’m eating quite different food, because I love try foreign dishes. I think it is an important part of the Country’s culture and history and is really interesting to know it! But I miss my wonderful pasta.

I want to  introduce  Korean food. There are many  different Korean  food .out of korean food i prepare  bulgogi and bibimbab . Bulgogi is one of traditional food. Whoever eats bulgogi, they would like it, and many foreigners love it, so sometimes they bring it back to their home country. Bulgogie is eaten in    traditional holiday like Chu-Seok, and parties or birthday parties  Bulgogi is one kind of Neo-bi-ah meat.As it is soft . back or inner parts are used mostly. Bulgogi can be said to be good food, because it        contains vegetables. I suggest you to eat bulgogi with foreign friends or Korean friends!   And then one more I wanna introduce bibimbap . Bibimbap is put together with different herbs and hot pepper paste on rice and rub in the food you eat. Take a look at the remaining food should eat them all at once.      This is our country, the representative of the food ordered bibimbap. It is tasty and nutritious .

BRAZILIAN FOOD

I think in my country people usually eat a healthy diet... maybe on weekends we eat something heavier, but not every day...

A typical food in Sao Paulo is rice, beans, meat, egg and salad... it is really good...and if you want, you can put chips, I really love my food! But I think this kind of food is easy to find in others countries.. Here in London I have eaten this twice!!!

I`ll talk about two things that are really Brazilian... is pão de queijo (typical food of the state of Minas Gerais) and brigadeiro (it is usually served at birthday parties, but can also be found at any kind of party and also eaten with a spoon).

In Brazil the pão de queijo is a popular snack, we can find this in every place at every time! It is a small bread roll roasted with cheese inside... It`s wonderful when it is hot..

The brigadeiro is a famous dessert in my country and in my opinion it is the best!!! It`s a small ball of chocolate made with condensed milk and chocolate! You can also put this in the middle of the cake, or just eat with a spoon! Amazing!

These are cannoli...a crisp crust with sweet ricotta inside..delicious!

I want to  introduce  Korean food. There are many  different Korean  food .out of korean food i prepare  bulgogi and bibimbab . Bulgogi is one of traditional food. Whoever eats bulgogi, they would like it, and many foreigners love it, so sometimes they bring it back to their home country. Bulgogie is eaten in    traditional holiday like Chu-Seok, and parties or birthday parties  Bulgogi is one kind of Neo-bi-ah meat.As it is soft . back or inner parts are used mostly. Bulgogi can be said to be good food, because it        contains vegetables. I suggest you to eat bulgogi with foreign friends or Korean friends!   And then one more I wanna introduce bibimbap . Bibimbap is put together with different herbs and hot pepper paste on rice and rub in the food you eat. Take a look at the remaining food should eat them all at once.      This is our country, the representative of the food ordered bibimbap. It is tasty and nutritious .

Food in Sicily

In my country I think we eat healtier food than English people. In Sicily we usually go home to have lunch or dinner. Here all people buy something to eat at the supermarket. I prefer to eat at home, because I can decide my meals, I can cook them and I can control my weight.
When I am at home, I eat healtier than now, because my mum cooks my meals with fresh food. So I can eat lots of vegetables and fruits, meat or fish and pasta. In these day I go to the supermarket and I decide the food to eat.
There are also some food that are not very healty but they are very good (we eat only when there is a special occasion.
If you came to Sicily you would be able to eat our ARANCINO. It's made with rice, tomato souce and meat, and then they are fried.

Or you can eat our sweets:
- Cannolo, made usually with sweet ricotta (you can eat this with chocolate, cream or other ingredients)

- Cassata (made with sweet ricotta). It's very sweet but I don't like it.

In Italy you can eat the best Pasta and Pizza you have never eat!!
I think Italian food is one of the best food in the world.
If you try it, you will love it!!  :)

korean food

I want to  introduce  Korean food. There are many  different Korean  food .out of korean food i prepare  bulgogi and bibimbab . Bulgogi is one of traditional food. Whoever eats bulgogi, they would like it, and many foreigners love it, so sometimes they bring it back to their home country. Bulgogie is eaten in    traditional holiday like Chu-Seok, and parties or birthday parties  Bulgogi is one kind of Neo-bi-ah meat.As it is soft . back or inner parts are used mostly. Bulgogi can be said to be good food, because it        contains vegetables. I suggest you to eat bulgogi with foreign friends or Korean friends!   And then one more I wanna introduce bibimbap . Bibimbap is put together with different herbs and hot pepper paste on rice and rub in the food you eat. Take a look at the remaining food should eat them all at once.      This is our country, the representative of the food ordered bibimbap. It is tasty and nutritious

Because Italy is long state, there are some differences between the North and the South.

The South has a healthy diet. In general, we eat pasta with tomato sauce, cheese, vegetables. We eat a lot of different kinds of fishes, vegetables, fruit and a little quantity of meat. So at home I’ve a healthy diet, but in London I don’t have one. Here I eat a lot of fat, sweets and sauces, not much salad and fruit.

I love eating pasta, pizza, fruit, salad, cheese and sometimes fish and meat. In Sicily we’ve a lot of different kinds of sweets, my favourite sweets are cannolo with ricotta, ice cream, and so on.

I don’t like very much English breakfast, because I like eating sweet things at breakfast. In Italy, for breakfast I have milk, coffee, cereals, jam and bread. I don’t know porridge, but I’d like to try it.

Feijoada - Brazilian Food

A special dish in Brazil is "FEIJOADA"!!

This word comes from beans (feijão) and it was made for slaves in middle of 19th Century. They used everything was left from their owners as vegetables, pork pieces but the worst pieces like tail, feet, ears, etc.

Nowadays, this food is a special dish in Brazil. The original "Feijoada" is made with black beans, pork pieces (tail, feet, ears, lots of kind of sausage, etc.), pork skin fried (torresmo). All is cooked several hours and used eat with rice, cooked cabbage and pieces of orange.

How you can realise, this food is very unhealthy meanly for the meat's pork. Even worse, usually before a "Feijoada" people drink "Cachaça" or "Caipirinha".

"Feijoada" is offered in the main restaurants in Brazil and used be too expensive food. Who could imagine a food made for slaves became an expensive dish?

Franciele talks about Brazilian food

Brazil is a big country with a lot of special food, but I will talk about my state, which is famous for barbecue. Barbecue is very famous, It’s traditional to have a barbecue every Sunday at lunch, it’s a moment to join the family, friends to enjoy together the last day of weekend. In my house every Sunday we have a barbecue. I don’t like to eat meat every day, but on Sunday I usually eat. But during the week I prefer healthy food, like fruit, vegetables, cereal, rice and beans and wholemeal bread.

Porridge!

Here is a photo of a bowl of porridge with honey - yum!

Do you eat a healthy diet? Do you think people in your country generally eat a healthy diet? Tell us about the food where you live and whether you find it easy or difficult to eat healthily when you're at home. Is it different now you're in London? I love eating fish and chips but of course it's not very healthy! I never eat a traditional English breakfast (bacon, eggs, fried bread etc) but I often eat porrige for breakfast, which is actually originally from Scotland, but it's quick to make, not too fattening, and filling. I look forward to reading your posts!

I think that the weather in my country Rome is perfect because the winter is not too cold and the summer is not to hot.

However this year was very strange...in the winter it snowed after 20 years and this summer my parents and my friends told me that it is very, very hot now!!!

I love the sun, it make me happy...

At the moment in my country it is winter; in Brazil the summer is not in July and August like in London, it starts in December and stay very hot until April, sometimes May ... This is good because in the Christmas is very hot and we can celebrate the happy New Year on the beach, is amazing... At the Carnival is hot too, and Easter... our best parties are in the summer!!!

In the summer in my city (Sao Paulo) we have about 35, 30 degrees and sometimes, some days, it can rain!!!

In the winter is not too cold like in London. In my opinion, our winter is like the weather is now here..Maybe the end of the summer here corresponds to the winter in Brazil. In my city I think we have about 18, 15 degrees in the winter and sometimes it can reach 10, but it is not normal! We have a lot of storms and overcast, but in Brazil we don`t have snow!

For me, the weather is really not important... if it is cold we can put more clothes, if it is hot we can put clothes more soft, if it is raining, we can take an umbrella, so we can resolve this very easily... I think that I`m living the best experiences of my life... the most important for me now is my new friends, my new love and the first thing: improve my English to do my masters HERE!

The weather in Korea.

Now in Korea it is summer. However it’s nearly finished in the last week of September and then autumn is in the air. But it’s still hot  in Korea. Last month we had rainy season and a typhoon hit our country. Fortunately, we didn’t have a great deal of damage. After the typhoon, the weather became hot again. But we can feel chilly in the morning and evening like recently London’s weather.

I didn’t used to like rain.  Whenever   it rains, I didn’t want to do something and go out. It made me lazy and gloomy. However   I’m used to it after I came to London. It doesn’t matter any more.

The weather in Milan today is sunny and cloudy, with 25 C and in London it is the same. It is really strange!!  I think that is a heat wave for London in September.  

In autumn the weather in Milan isn't as humid as in London and we can have wonderful sunny days with a lovely breeze: I love these days, they make me happy and romantic... like the photo J

The weather in my country

I live in Sicily, in the south of Italy. In Italy the weather is rather different from the north to the south.

In the south, in winter the temperature is quite mild. It’s rain and sometimes we’ve heavy rain for a short time, with thunder and lightning and often hail. In winter it never snows.

In summer the weather is quite hot and dry, the temperature reaches 35-40 degrees. Because of it’s on the coast, often the weather is humid, but never foggy.

The weather in Sicily is more warm and more sunny than in London.

When the weather is sunny I feel better, but I also like when it’s raining in the winter and I can stay at home.

In Sicily the weather is very fine and sunny. Temperatures reach 33-35^ C.

At the end of September the weather will change: the temperature will reach 25^ C, but sometimes it can be cloudy and it can rain. However the weather in Sicily is always better than in London: it’s hotter and sunnier and it rains less than in London.

If there is the sun, I feel better than when it’s overcast or stormy. But I feel good or bad for something happened, the weather is not important.

The weather in Sicily

The weather in Sicily is really different from London because the time of Summer  is 6 months long ( from April to September ) and the temperature exceeds 40°C. The winter is hotter than London because the temperature is about 15-20 °C. 
For the last few days, in Sicily, the weather has been stormy.  

I don’t like the irregular London weather because I never know which clothes to wear; but in this week, when I’ve seen a fine and sunny weather, I’m felt better because I love sun, It makes me happy.

In summer this is my favourite beach

We have been talking about the weather in class this week, and I would like you to tell me about what the weather is like in your country at the moment, and maybe compare the weather in London with the weather where you live. Does the weather affect how you feel? The wonderful sunshine this week has certainly put me in a good mood!