Here are the words for different types of meals, ways of cooking food and for the things we do with food before cooking and before eating it.

A take-away meal is one you buy and take to your home to eat. Chinese meals are a popular take-away in the UK.

Frozen meals are ready prepared and can be bought from the supermarket.

Meals for one can also be bought from the supermarket.

Foods such as burgers are also called junk food. This is also called fast food.

Many people like eating out, which is the phrase used for eating in restaurants.

Cordon bleu cooking is very refined cooking done by an expert.

A picnic is a meal, usually of sandwiches, eaten outside.

A barbecue is a meal, usually of meat, cooked outside over hot coals.

A snack is a small and quick meal.

TV dinners are a type of frozen meal which you can buy from a supermarket. They have all the parts of a meal, vegetables, meat, etc... included.

Home cooking is the type of food your mother prepares.

Vegetarian meals are those without meat.

Many people now like to eat organic food. Organic food has been produced without any chemicals.

Vegan meals are those without any animal products like milk in them.

Brunch is a large breakfast eaten near lunch time.

When you roast meat, it is cooked in the oven for some hours.

We boil vegetables like potatoes.

To grill food is to cook it by heating it from above.

We deep fry foods such as chips.

A flambé steak is cooked and set on fire briefly just before you eat it.

Many people now microwave their food.

We often cook food such as fish or rice by steaming it.

When food simmers, it is kept boiling slowly.

Foods such as stews are cooked in a slow cooker.

People use woks to cook Chinese food.

To cook bread you need to bake it in an oven.

You need to set the timer to know how long your food has been cooking.

When you are preparing the ingredients before you start using them, you need to weigh or measure them to check you have the correct quantity.

If you get meat out of your freezer, you need to defrost it or thaw it before you can cook it.

If you whisk foods such as eggs, you stir them very quickly.

While cooking food you may need to stir it with a spoon.

After cooking vegetables in water, you strain them or drain off the water.

We slice or chop up vegetables such as carrots before cooking them.

We peel vegetables such as potatoes before cooking them.

To get small strands of cheese, we grate it.

When cooking with eggs, you first need to break or crack them.

If you grease a dish or a pan, you put oil or butter on it before you start to cook with it.

With some types of meals, you need to stuff meat or vegetables. This means put other ingredients inside.

Before you eat a salad, you might add salad dressing.

When we squash food such as potatoes, it is called to mash them.

If you put food on top of a meal to make it look pretty, you garnish it.

If you season food, you add spices or salt and pepper to alter the taste.

If you spread something like butter onto bread, you put in on evenly.

If roast meat has been cooked, you need to carve it into different portions.

If there is any food left, you can freeze it to use again.