Vocabulary

• start out: To begin your life or career in a particular way.
• go ahead: To start an activity; start doing, working etc.
• in with: Fashionable or popular at the moment.
• make up: To invent or create a story
• brilliant: Having a great amount of intelligence or talent
• strain: To remove the water from (food) using a colander
• solid: Being able to be trusted; reliable
• texture: Quality from different elements, as in music
• recipe: Conditions likely to create a particular result
• crack: Attempt to achieve a goal or objective
• proper: Correct according to social or moral rules
• bit: Device put in a horse's mouth to control it
• estimate: Guess or calculation of cost, size or value
• release: To free someone from a responsibility or burden
• stock: Animals such as cattle kept for breeding
• pour: To fill a person's glass or cup with a drink
• flavor: Quality giving something a particular character
• throw: To use your arm to make something fly in the air
• rest: Time when one relaxes, sleeps, or is inactive
• alcohol: A colorless liquid that can catch fire (C2H5OH)
• serve: To act in a particular position or office
• dip: To decrease or lower temporarily
• roast: To strongly criticize often in a teasing manner
• bottom: The part of your body you sit on
• medium: Method of expressing ideas or feelings
• count: To add things together to find the total number
• imagination: Ability to creates new ideas and mental images
• kind: In a caring and helpful manner
• liquid: (Of wealth) being able to be spent as cash
• ton: Unit of weight; 907 kilograms (US); 1016 (UK)
• format: Form, design, or arrangement of something
• barrel: To travel at high speed
• crumble: To break into small parts or crumbs
• celery: Long hard thin green vegetable
• rack: A frame, stand, hook on which things are hung
• scrape: To take something off a surface with a sharp tool
• great: Very good; better than before
• pull: Act of breathing in smoke, as from a pipe
• find: To become aware of something that is happening
• pot: Container designed to hold or store something
• heat: State of anger, excitement, or arguing
• lid: Cover that can be lifted or removed, as on bottles
• stove: Device that burns fuel for heating or cooking
• simmer: To cook or be cooked so that it is just boiling
• whisk: To beat egg, etc. to add air and make it light
• gravy: Brown sauce made from meat juices when cooking
• start: First time or place that a thing exists; beginning
• burn: To destroy with fire
• flour: Powder made from a grain used in cooking
• infuse: To soak tea, etc. in hot water, oil etc.
• remove: To get rid of something completely
• season: One of Spring, Summer, Autumn (Fall) and Winter
• bay: Part of an ocean or lake partly surrounded by land
• heart: A feeling of care for others; compassion
• time: Speed at which music is played; tempo
• lipstick: Red, pink etc. makeup for the lips
• give: Degree of flexibility in something, a material
• add: To include as well
• dice: To cut food or other things into small pieces
• mince: To grind meat, etc. into very small pieces
• mash: To make something soft by beating or crushing it
• thyme: Type of herb with a slightly minty flavor
• cider: Alcoholic drink made from fermented fruit (apples)
• sieve: Device with fine mesh to filter out liquids
• saute: Dish of sauted food
• turkey: Edible bird resembling a large chicken
• shallot: Type of longish onion
• unquote: To remove the quotation marks from
• strainer: Sieve; item to drain water from (food)
• sherry: Alcoholic drink originating in Spain