How do you like your beef?
rare = still bloody in the middle medium-rare = soft and a little pink well-done = not pink and a little hard Do you use recipes when you cook?
Or do you just make it up as you go along? Where can you find recipes? Do you look on the net or do you have some cookery books at home? Can you follow British chef, Jamie Oliver's recipe in English? |
Read Jamie's recipe online and see if you could make this dish.
Try to read quickly and guess the words. Don't use a dictionary this time. http://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/beef-recipes/perfect-roast-beef |
Look at the text again and try to match
topside = to rest a piece of meat = tender = a joint = to peel (a vegetable/fruit) = to roughly chop (a vegetable) = to drizzle = to crack on = to baste = tinfoil = gravy = |
the words on the left to the definitions right.
to lightly pour a liquid onto something to cut (a vegetable) into the same sized pieces, not very accurately a thin metal sheet used for covering food to leave meat after cooking before serving to remove the outer skin a brown liquid sauce made of meat juice and other ingredients to begin or continue easy to cut or chew the outer side of a piece of beef a piece of meat to pour fat or meat juices over a cooking piece of meat |
Here are the answers:
topside = the outer side of a piece of beef to rest a piece of meat = to leave meat after cooking before serving tender = easy to cut or chew a joint = a piece of meat to peel (a vegetable/fruit) = to remove the outer skin to roughly chop (a vegetable) = to cut (a vegetable) into the same sized pieces, not very accurately to drizzle = to lightly pour a liquid onto something to crack on = to begin or continue to baste = to pour fat or meat juices over a cooking piece of meat tinfoil = a thin metal sheet used for covering food gravy = a brown liquid sauce made of meat juice and other ingredients |
Now it's your turn.
Write the recipe for one of your favourite dishes. Use some of the words above or follow this link to more cooking words to help you write your recipe. |