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BOILED POTATOES
Ingredients:

• 2 litres of water
• 0.5 kg potatoes
• a pinch of salt

How to cook it: 

• First, peel the potatoes.
• Next, wash them.
• Then, cut the potatoes into two or three bits.
• After that, pour some water into a pan and let it boil.
• Next, put the potatoes into the pan and let them cook for 15/20 minutes in boiling water.
• Finally, take the potatoes out of the water and serve with boiled octopus.

SPANISH TORTILLA
Ingredients:

• 1 kg potatoes
• 9 eggs
• olive oil
• a pinch of salt

How to cook it: 

• First, peel the potatoes and wash them.
• Then, slice the potatoes.
• Next, put them into the pan.
• Pour some oil and let the potatoes fry until they are ready.
• After that, mix the eggs in a bowl and add the fried potatoes.
• Next, put it all into a frying-pan.
• Wait for one minute and turn over so that it is cooked on both sides.
• Finally, put it on a plate and serve.

CHOCOLATE CAKE
Ingredients:

• Oil
• Flour
• Chocolate powder (Cola Cao)
• Baking powder
• 3 eggs
• 6 spoonfuls of sugar
• 6 spoonfuls of milk
• butter
• chocolate to cover

How to cook it:

• First, put the eggs into a bowl and add 6 spoonfuls of milk.
• Then add 6 spoonfuls of oil and 6 spoonfuls of flour.
• After that, add 6 spoonfuls of sugar and 6 spoonfuls of chocolate in powder.
• Put a bit of butter in a cup and melt it in the microwave for one minute.
• After that, put it all into a mold previously greased.
• Then, bake it in the microwave for 15 minutes.
• Put a bit of chocolate in a cup and melt it for one minute in the microwave.
• Finally pour the melted chocolate over the cake so that it is covered.
• And serve.

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Food in Britain

There are several aspects of food and eating in Britain that are shocking or at least surprising for a Spaniard:

• Meal times and names:

Marmite by Malcolm Farmer

• Large breakfasts. A proper traditional breakfast might include fried eggs, sausage, baked beans, bacon, toast, fried tomatoes, mushrooms, toast or fried bread ... and, of course, a cup of tea or coffee. However, nowadays, most people in Britain just have a simpler breakfast with cereal, toast, a cup of tea or coffee and some juice. A "nice cuppa" refers to a cup of tea.
• Many people will drink tea or coffee while having a meal, instead of drinking water. It might be difficult to imagine someone eating soup while drinking soup, but not from a Briton.
• Almost anything can be eaten on toast: beans, Marmite, egg, tomato, cheese...



Tea time at Lucy's by MrsWoman

• Tea is the national drink. It is drunk at all meals, any time of the day and any time of the year, not just for the meal called "tea".
•  There are also some foods that may seem strange to foreigners:
• haggis
• Scotch eggs
• Toad in the hole
• black pudding
• Welsh rarebit
• Fish and chips. If you don't know what to eat any time, you may pop into a fish and chips shop and buy your dinner there.

Penny Lane fish and chips shop by Loco Steve

Fish and chips by Richard Allaway

Traditional british food from comeniusnewclans

British food from Anthonny Garcia

QUIZZES:

• Proprofs: British Food
• Quizly

READ MORE:

• Project Britain
• 21 Things Everyone Should Know Before Visiting Britain
• British Etiquette for International Students
• British Habits That Confuse the Rest Of the World
• British Food Habits That Americans Will Never Understand
• Ten Strange British Foods
• Food Quirks That British People Don't Realise Are Weird

https://britainexplorer.com/ten-strange-british-foods/

https://www.buzzfeed.com/tabathaleggett/food-quirks-that-british-people-dont-realise-are-weird

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Speaking topics about food

• Do you like cooking? Is the food you cook at home better than convenience foods?
• Which healthy food do you like? 
• Which unhealthy food do you like?
• Do you think that you eat a “balanced diet”? What is a “balanced diet”?
• What does the “Mediterranean diet” include? What does it NOT include?
• What advice would you give somebody who wants to have a good, balanced diet?
• Do you take any action to consume less salt, fat or sugar? Do you think people should reduce their salt, fat or sugar intake?
• Do you think that a vegetarian diet could be healthy? In what ways do you think it might be good and in what ways bad?
• What is "junk food"? Why is it called "junk"? Is there a difference between junk food and fast food? If so, what is it?
• If you had to chose between junk food and your heath? Which would you go for ? Why is it so tasty/popular?
• How does advertising influence the way we eat?
• If you have a garden do you grow your own fruit or vegetables? Which ones?
• How much difference is there between things grown at home and those bought at the supermarket?
• How has food, eating and drinking culture changed in the last decades?
• Why have cooking TV programmes become so popular?

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