Recipes in English: Mediterranean Chickpea Salad
Ya es verano y es la hora de las ensaladas. Este mes Clare te enseña en inglés como preparar una ensalada Mediteraneo de Garbanzos.
Tag: Cooking in English
Cooking in English – Baba Ganoush
This is one of our favorite dinners. It’s easy to make, healthy and always tastes good. Impress your friends with this dish or enjoy it on your own.
Cooking in English – Bunny Carrot Cake
This is such a fun and REALLY good Carrot Cake that is perfect for Easter time. You can decorate it and be creative or pass it on to your kids to decorate, as I did.
Cooking in English: Gluten Free Crepes
In Spain it’s called Carnival, in the US it’s Fat Tuesday or Mardi Gras, Christians refer to it as Shrove day and in Ireland it’s referred to as Pancake Tuesday. Tuesday (Feb. 16th) or the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday signifies the last day to party or eat too much before we enter into the fasting phase of lent (Cuaresma).
As Clare is from Ireland, she has prepared her version of Pancake Tuesday with this delicious recipe for Gluten-Free Crepes, which are very similar to pancakes.
- Self rising flour – flour containing a substance that makes cakes swell when they are cooked
- Raising agent – something added to cause the flour to be lifted up or become higher
- Trials and errors – a way of achieving an aim of solving a problem by trying a number of different methods and learning from the mistakes that you make
- Pseudo-cereal – a fake cereal
- Binds – to make a mixture stick together in a solid mass
- Sieve – /sɪv/ to put a liquid or powder through a sieve
- Pinch of … – a small amount of something that a person can hold between their first finger and thumb
- Free range eggs – eggs that come from chickens that were not kept in cages
- Spongy – soft and able to absorb or having already absorbed a lot of liquid, like a sponge
- Lumpy – containing little balls of flour or mixture
- To set – to leave a mixture to become hard or solid
- At least – the minimum
- A squeeze of… – to press something firmly
- To wilt (down) – to soften from the heat, to cook leaves
Cooking in English: Vermouth Cocktail
Here is the perfect cocktail for Christmas time and… well… any time!
Cooking in English: Thanksgiving Stuffing
Thanksgiving stuffing is a recipe lots of people have asked me for over the years. It’s really quite simple and delicious. Find the full recipe below. And don’t forget to share the video if you liked it.
Thanksgiving Stuffing
| 170 grams butter | 1 ½ teaspoons salt |
| 1 onion chopped | ½ teaspoon pepper |
| 2 celery stalks chopped | 1 teaspoon thyme |
| 9 cups of soft bread cubed | 1 teaspoon sage |
| 1 cup raisons | 3 cups finely chopped apple |
Heat the butter in a large pot and stir in onion and celery. Cook five minutes. Mix the rest of the ingredients with the butter mixture. Stuff the turkey right before cooking. A stuffed turkey should be cooked 15 minutes for each pound. (1 kilo = 2.2 pounds).
Shepherd’s / Cottage Pie
Clare brings us a truly versatile dish that all adults and kids will love. Perfect for these cold days and even better as left overs! Don’t forget to check some new vocabulary down below.
Vocabulary
Stroke – /
Sheep – oveja
minced beef – carne picada
brought up – criada
chopped – picado
sauté – salteado
without further ado – sin mas demora
diced – en dados
pick something out – sacar con dedos
hail storm – granizado
where the hell is… donde coño esta…
beef stock – caldo de carne
don’t be mean to your mashed potatoes – usa una buena cantidad de patatas
pressure cooker – olla exprés
kettle – tetera
thingamajig – chisme, cosa
lumps – grumos
potato masher – pasapures
creamy – cremosa
sealed – cerrado
crispy – tostado, crujiente
Cooking in English – Brownies
Recipe
Peanut Butter Batter Brownie Batter
3/4 cups (190 grams) of smooth peanut butter 3 ounces (85 grams) unsweetened cholocate
2/3 cups (135 grams) granulated sugar 1/2 cup (115 grams) unsalted butter
1 large egg 1 1/4 cups (250 grams) granulated sugar
1/4 teaspoon vanilla extra 2 large eggs
a couple pinches of coarse sea salt. 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 teaspoon coarse sea salt
2/3 cup (85 grams) flour
Vocabulary
Cooking in English – Margaritas
Our favorite Quarentinie!!! This is an easy but delicious mixed drink recipe that anyone can make at home. And it’s just in time for summer (even when its cold and rainy in June)
Ingredients:
Syrup Cocktail
– 50 gm sugar – Syrup
-120 ml water – 90 ml of tequila ( silver, white)
-120 ml lime juice (2-3 limes) – 60 ml orange liqueur ( Cointreau, Gran Marnier, etc.)
Cooking in English – Apple Crumble
Round two of Cooking in English! This time we have the traditional Irish dessert Apple Crumble made by none other than Clare herself. It’s a typical dessert in Ireland mainly due to the locally sourced basic ingredients, such as flour, butter, sugar and apples. It’s usually an autumn or winter dessert as it’s best served warm. Clare and her siblings sometimes came home and what started as a merienda turned into a full Apple Crumble meal.
Check below for some vocabulary and the recipe is at he end of the video.
Vocabulary
Without further ado – sin más preámbulos
stew – guisar
release – liberar
cloves – clavos
put in there – añadir
oats – copas de avena
certainly not – de ninguna manera
transform – transformar
resembles – parecerse
bread cumbs – pan rallado
golden – dorada
the proof is in the pudding – lo sabrás si es bueno a probarlo
Chocolate Chip Pancakes
Watch the video, read up on all the ingredients and learn some vocabulary and interesting facts about pancakes.
Chocolate Chip Pancakes
Ingredients
1 cup (226.8 grams) of flour
¼ teaspoon (1.23 grams) salt
1 Tablespoon (14.3 grams) Brown Sugar (or regular sugar)
1 Tablespoon Baking Powder
1 large egg
¾ cup (174 grams) milk
2 Tablespoon vegetable oil
Chocolate chips
Butter or Margarine
Directions
1. Mix all dry ingredients together in small bowl.
2. Beat egg.
3. Add milk and oil and the dry ingredients. Mix until smooth.
4. Heat a pan or grill. When hot, add a bit of butter to the surface.
5. Use small ladle to pour batter onto got grill.
6. Add chocolate chips to the pancakes.
7. When bubbles appear, flip the pancakes and cook for another minute or two.
8. Serve with syrup and/or fruit.
Learn some vocabulary used in the video
Fluffy- esponjoso
Sunflower seeds- Semillas de girasol
Baking powder- levadura (Royal)
Scooper/Ladle- cacillo
bubbles- burbujas
Flip- voltear
To double up- doblar
Syrup- Sirope
Every country has their own style of pancake. Click here to learn about the different types and about why people in the US call them Silver Dollar Pancakes.