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English Lessons from the Kitchen

English lessons from the kitchen was a short online summer course focused on food and cooking. These 11-year-old students learnt how to use English to describe the food flavours, textures and cooking methods, while putting this language into practice during cooking and baking lessons. Below are some examples of the descriptive language learnt and practiced on the course. Many of the wonderful recipes that the students created were passed down to them from their parents or grandparents, making it a more personal culinary experience. We are proud to share these authentic and unedited recipes and we hope the students continue cooking and have the confidence to try new things in English, so the language can open doors and not be a barrier to new opportunities.

Daria’s dangerous delicious Tiramisu

Ingredients:

Five hundred grams of mascarpone
Five hundred grams of coffee
Five hundred grams of cookies
Four spoons of sugar
Eight eggs
Cocoa
Vanilla essence
A dusting of salt

Preparation

1. We separate the whites from the yolks
2. We mix the whites with a dusting of salt and two spoons of sugar. Stir until they become frothy.
3. ⁠We mix the yolks with the rest of the sugar
4. ⁠After we add the mascarpone over yolks with sugar
5. ⁠We add the foam of whites with yolks with mascarpone
6. ⁠We make the coffee and leave to cold
7. Dip cookies in coffee
8. After a layer of cookies we add a layer of cream
9. We repeat until we run out of whipped cream
10. As the end we sprinkle cocoa
11. Refrigerate overnight

Luisa's spicy, delicious and healthy Chinese food

Ingredients:

2 red/green peppers

3 carrots

500g noodles

1 big spoon of soy souce

5 wood ears

{optional} chilly sauce and sesame oil

Instructions:

Put the noodles and the wood ears in cold water for aprox 1 hour.
Chop the vegetables .
Wash them
Put them in a wok pan
Put soy sauce and {optional sesame oil}
Let them cook for aprox.5 minutes
Then put the wood ears in the wok, and let them cook for 10 minutes.

Cezar’s deliciously creamy and buttery browned French Toast

Ingredients:

-Milk

-Bread

-Eggs

-Butter

Instructions:

Crack the eggs, pour them into a bowl, and then add the milk
Mix the eggs and the milk until the composition goes orange
Put some butter into a frying pan, and wait until it melts
When the butter is completely melted, you can dip a slice of bread into the bowl
Put the slice of bread into the frying pan, after five minutes you can flip the bread to the other side.
After both sides are well cooked you can take the bread off the frying pan

Eva's sweet and delicious Italian Pesto Pasta

Ingredients:

-Pasta (any kind)

-Pesto

-Salt

-Cheese (any kind)

-Oregano

Instructions:

Boil the water and sprinkle a bit of salt;
Add the pasta of your choice;
After two to four minutes, take a pasta out, run it under cold water and taste it;
When the pasta is ready, take it out and drain the water in the sink;
Put them on a plate, add Pesto and mix;
Add any kind of cheese on top;
For a better looking plate, you can sprinkle oregano;

Alesia's sweet, creamy and yummy Tiramisu

Ingredients:

-whipped cream

-mascarpone

-sponge fingers

-cocoa

-coffee

Instructions:

Mix the whipped cream and the mascarpone in a bowl, this will be the cream
Dip the sponge fingers in coffee and put them one by one in the tray.
After you finish the first layer of dipped sponge fingers in coffee put a layer of cream on top.
After all the sponge fingers are covered in cream, sprinkle a layer of cocoa on top.
Repeat the process two more times.
At the final layer of cream you will put more cocoa than the last two times.
Put the Tiramisu in the fridge for 24 hours.