Vocabulary

• look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
• up to speed: Fully informed; aware of the latest information
• at home: In one's own residence or country.
• in half: Divided into two equal parts.
• of course: Sure ; Certainly
• eat your heart out: To feel bitter or jealous about someone else's success.
• literally: In a literal manner or sense; exactly as stated.
• sort: To organize things by putting them into groups
• equivalent: Equal to something in value, use or meaning
• incredible: Very good; amazing
• phenomenon: Unusual event, fact that can be studied
• basically: Used before you explain something simply, clearly
• gorgeous: Extremely attractive; richly beautiful
• staple: Main food of a particular community
• recipe: Conditions likely to create a particular result
• spread: A big meal, often laid out as a buffet
• stunning: Causing amazement, e.g. because so very good
• bit: Device put in a horse's mouth to control it
• deal: To cope with something - usually troubles
• cuisine: Certain style or technique of cooking
• dense: Very thick and difficult to see, get through
• drop: Distance between a higher and a lower level
• scoop: To dig out for a hole with a tool or hands
• generous: Giving or ready to give freely
• lift: Picking someone up in a car and taking to a place
• click: To work well with someone or something
• slice: Way of hitting the ball so the ball curves
• soggy: Unpleasantly wet
• roast: To strongly criticize often in a teasing manner
• pop: To cause something to open or burst suddenly
• place: To put someone in a particular type of situation
• avocado: Pear-shaped fruit with green flesh and large stone
• learn: To get knowledge or skills by study or experience
• crispy: Dry and breaking with a sharp sound
• build: Your physical shape; physique
• catch: Amount of something that has been caught
• slide: Part of machines that slides backward and forward
• snack: Small amount of food eaten between meals
• melt: To disappear or to go away
• middle: Place that is halfway between two things
• amazing: Surprising in a pleasing way
• sour: (Of relationship) to cease to be good or friendly
• pull: Act of breathing in smoke, as from a pipe
• turn: To become (a particular age)
• part: Division of a book
• start: First time or place that a thing exists; beginning
• drizzle: Light rain
• oven: Kitchen appliance you put food in to bake, roast
• puree: Juice made from crushed fruit or vegetables
• real: Actually existing or happening, not imagined
• link: Any one of the rings that are part of a chain
• paste: To move computer data from one page to another
• delicious: Very pleasing to eat; especially pleasing
• base: Place military personnel live, train, and operate
• speed: How fast or slow something is or is done
• pepper: Green, red, or yellow vegetable with hollow center
• spoon: Tool with a rounded end for eating ice cream, etc.
• cream: Pale color that is yellowish white
• flavour: Taste of something, especially in food or drink
• salt: Natural white crystal used to flavor food
• tortilla: Thin Mexican flat bread
• gas: Elements in our air, like oxygen or nitrogen
• bean: Large seed eaten as a vegetable
• taco: Tortilla rolled cupped around a filling
• pork: Meat of a pig, used for food