Cooking Essay

That Troublesome Locker… In 8th grade I remember being in Mrs. Manley’s class. In the class, we were assigned kitchens and had a certain amount of people in our kitchen. Mrs. Manley assigned us to make homemade chocolate chip cookies from scratch. My group and I just looked at each other and thought this recipe should be a piece of cake. However, the way the cookies were not what we anticipated them to be. As we placed our cookies onto the pan and put them in the oven, we noticed something…

Cheesy Chicken Casserole Ingredients 3-4 chicken breasts, chopped and cooked 16 oz. egg noodles, cooked Cheesy Chicken Casserole 24 oz. sour cream 2 cans cream of chicken soup 8 oz. shredded cheddar cheese 8 oz. shredded mozzarella cheese 1 sleeve Ritz crackers, crushed 1/4 c. margarine, melted 2 Tbsp. Poppy seeds Directions 1. In a large bowl add the sour cream, soup and cheeses and the chicken, stir well together. 2. Combine the noodles into the mixture until fully coated. 3.…

growing up in small low-class apartment in the city of Toronto. I was born the youngest. I had one brother and one sister there were twins and two years older than me. My parents were either working or cooking us food. My sibling and I used to sit on the sofa watching cartoons while my parents were cooking for us. When the food was ready, we had to go eat on the dining table with everyone. I was fortunate to have parents that could cook delicious food but even more a dad that could cook better…

picked foods from plants and ate them immediately, without cooking or changing the foods. They were able to take in the most nutrients by eating this way. Today most of our foods are processed and cooked. This strips away important nutritional value and adds many empty calories. Followers of a raw food diet enjoy eating unprocessed, whole foods at their meals. Fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, and even some legumes can all be eaten without cooking them first. All of the flavor and nutrition is…

stole everything in sight, drank like crazy, did lots of drugs, gambled all night, were screwing their way through the floor, the customers, everybody in sight (Thorn, 2000).” Anthony compares writing to cooking and realizes that they are both completely different forms of expressing yourself. Cooking allows one to use all five senses: sight, smell, touch, hear, and taste, while writing only utilizes one – sight. Bourdain’s book “Kitchen Confidential”, “swaggers where the rest of us fear to…

Do you ever think how you use your senses on Thanksgiving day? On the day of Thanksgiving you pretty much use all of your senses. In this essay I will explain how I use my five senses on the day of Thanksgiving. Have you ever watched your parents, aunts/ uncles, or even your grandparents prepare the food? When it’s around Thanksgiving time I help my mom prepare a lot of food. The first thing we usually make is (of course) the huge, rounded, butterball turkey. Sometimes we add special spices…

Sausage Dip Every couple of years my family and I travel up north to spend Easter with my family in Kentucky. After an eight-hour car ride, we would enter the house to a pleasant aroma of pulled pork that my Aunt Kathy had been cooking since that morning. My aunt loved it when we would all visit. She made sure we were fed and we had a place to stay, even if our trip was a last minute decision. One Easter, my mom and aunt were in the kitchen making dinner. They were making a dip I had never…

When young Neil Millar arrived in Cairns in 1959, he worked first at the Old Pacific Hotel, then at the Great Northern, before heading overseas. On his return, he found employment in Mareeba, enjoying it enough to remain up the hill three years, before descending the range for a job at the Ancient Mariner, and then moving on for two years at George's Bistro, at which point he felt possessed of sufficient experience to launch his own establishment. In 1975, he opened Millar's Restaurant, located…

An important part of food is the implement used with which people eat. In modern day United States, the most common utensils regarding foodstuffs are forks, knives, and spoons. Forks have the longest, most adaptive past, changing from a simple prong or stick to the multi-pronged silverware currently in use. Forks are commonly used to transport food from the plate to the mouth, as well as hold substances still while being cut. In Rome, devices people now call “dinner-spikes” were used as the…

Natural grains are indigestible she explained, they must be “threshed, ground, and cooked to make them edible” (quoted in Faigley 271). The threshing, grinding, and cooking are all processes that consumers today do not have to worry about. Grains in bread, pastas, and even oatmeal are processed and made safe before they hit supermarket shelves. The development of refining and genetically altering these items made them…