hey there Michelle how's everything going today hey good Lindsay how are you awesome I'm excited
to talk about food and cooking have you done any cooking lately um not not too much I feel like my
dinners have really gone kind of done one downhill uh-oh yeah yeah yeah exactly yeah not not so great
um but how about you have you been cooking anything recently I still haven't learned to
cook I still but I will say I was on a search for a good salad dressing I eat a ton of greens like
I eat so much kale and spinach and arugula so it's like I need a good salad dressing that's
not store-bought because then you get all those chemicals especially in the U.S right you get all
the additives so I found a great recipe for a mint like a yogurt base with mint dressing
so good so yes I have been cooking Michelle oh welcome your own salad dressing there's
a blender and everything it's very impressive so what do you mean you don't cook you do cook yeah
just getting started here yeah do you have do you have any to cook more not really it's fun making
that salad dressing but yeah I'm not really the cook in the house so we need to let people you
know if they have the talents they can do it yeah stay and stay in your lane right stay in
your lane good expression by the way yes stay in your lane yeah oh I should do an episode on that
um [ __ ] anyway but so we've talked about this a little bit but we're going to talk about cooking
more so usually with a recipe you have specific measurements so these are words that we're gonna
go over today that apparently you know there are words that have specific measurements but they
might be very small so we use certain words for them right you don't necessarily say like a cup
but you know for everything or half a cup sometimes things are just smaller so how
can we talk about that right like these teeny tiny measurements yeah and as I'm looking at
what we're going to show our listeners today these are measurements that are not exactly they're not
exact right right that's the other these are the yeah these are the ones that I'm always confused
about when I see a recipe a dash a dollop what is that right how much is that actually supposed to
be right it's true and I think the thing is like with cooking I think there's a lot more room for
you know just your personal touch and you know how much you put of everything whereas baking you have
to be really exact yes that's exactly true baking I yeah that's another level so I think most people
are either cooks or they're Bakers like they don't do both right right right right right exactly so
guys before we get into this a little bit more I want to direct you to another food episode we do
a lot of food talk on all I love English right so guys head on over to 1403 which is all about pizza
grab a slice and learn Pizza vocabulary in the U.S that was actually a trivia question or not a
trivia question just like a conversation starter in my orange theory class last night it was like
what style pizza will you eat and people have very strong opinions about that the teacher was like I
only eat New York Pizza I will not like Troy Ohio pizza yeah she folds it and she's too thick she
says the Detroit style so guys go over and check out that episode for some great conversation that
you can use to connect in English right definitely all right so what's the first thing you might say
all right again very not exact a splash a splash this is used with a liquid right you would never
say add a splash of flour right no no no no no yeah this is specifically for liquid you might
say like add a splash of oil right like you know how I mean in a recipe sometimes it'll
say like add oil to the pan and it's like well how much oil some you know it's like whatever
um I don't know how much is it Michelle I mean what do we do what does that mean when we see
that on the recipe what does it mean Splash yeah so I think about it like you know just
like you pour a little bit in and you pick it up quickly like you just kind of like
let a little bit of liquid out and then get it right yeah so also we might use this like
if you're you know maybe ordering a drink or something you might say like just add a splash
of cranberry juice something like that right actually um that's funny so I I so with my son
um he doesn't have a lot of juice but um sometimes like when we've needed like during potty training
you're supposed to give them a lot of liquid so to encourage it with a little bit of juice so I would
always just take like a splash because I didn't want to give them too much I would give him like a
splash of right cranberry juice and water so then there became a name for that so we call it Splash
juice so to this day like he hasn't had it in a while but we'll call it Splash juice so that's
just my vegetable family word yeah oh we make our little our family words right yeah that's so fun
that's so cool yeah and I love it that's really cool so a splash is kind of I mean it's probably
more than a tablespoon right it's probably just sort of like you're just throwing a little bit in
guys you're not it's not a cup it's not half a cup it's not even a quarter of a cup right
yeah but you're gonna see this more than you think oh yeah yeah yeah yeah so this is it's
not completely exact but you know just and then pull back throw it out throw it in listen what's
the next one the next one is a pinch yes so I'm thinking of like I mean sometimes I do this like
even if I just want to add salt to this you know do you ever do it when you're cooking and you just
pour the salt into your hand and then you just kind of like I'm on you yeah you guys can see
like it's just kind of yeah you just kind of like put so that not too much salt comes out from the
containers from the shaker like you just do it in your hand and then you kind of you know I don't
know for sure by the way guys today's episode is on you yeah so you can see me uh doing a pinch
a pinch Just A Pinch right pinching your fingers is like this and guys come over to YouTube to
see it if you want to see it and then drop it in just a pinch of salt okay and then there's
a dash which is the same idea as a as a pinch I think um but you know you could say like oh
a dash of pepper yeah it's kind of refreshing to have these non-exact uh ways of measuring you know
that stress tells us we have a little Freedom yeah more salt you can add more salt right or you can
go back and add salt later which is salty enough do you like uh things made with a lot of spice
a lot of spice well since I moved to Colorado yes I'm definitely getting into more they have
um a culture of spicier food here for no question compared to the east coast oh yeah that's nice
I like spicy food yeah green chilies are really hot out here and so green chili sauce breakfast
burritos with green chili things are definitely spicier out here that's funny I didn't I didn't
know that that's true yeah yeah it's called Western culture so yeah interesting so yeah
guys you can see a lot of times there's things like pinch or Dash used for spices I think
um now let's get a little bit bigger okay with the next one what's the next one a dollop this
is a really funny word to say yes dollop dollop yes yes I think of this like more for yogurt or
something like kind of like how much would you say a dollop might be I would probably
take like a spoon for my kitchen to just fill it up with that so like a tablespoon maybe or
more or a little maybe two tablespoons yeah yeah a normal eating spoon and just like a
it's a poop like I just like you just throw it on there and that's a dollop like isn't there
isn't that a dollop of Daisy isn't that I don't know if I'm allowed to say the dollop of Daisy
I don't what is that I don't know it's like isn't Daisy is it a is it yogurt or sour cream
or it's a it's one of those things and they're they're um their tagline is do a dollop of Daisy
no idea but yeah I think it's this is reserved more for things that are kind
of creamier right there it's you would never again use this for flour because Flowers dry
and you would never use it for liquids like juice cranberry juice or water it's foreign
heavy cream rice this has more it's like a denser type of thing then yeah so then like uh cranberry
juice or something yeah exactly exactly so that's what that's this is guys this is really Insider
vocabulary here today so you're gonna be able to show off in your cooking class did you ever take
a cooking class when you and Dan were dating I feel like that's a common thing to do when
you're dating someone I I've done um like uh we've done classes when traveling I thought I think I've
talked about it so fun yeah but I also took a a class with a friend I guess I was like 10 years
ago now and uh yeah so I have done it but I'm not great um yeah what about you have you done cooking
classes a few traveling too we took a really great cooking class in Lima oh my god really Lima oh
Michelle food and Lima really incredible oh wow and yeah we took a really cool cooking class there
um but mostly we do Food Tours so the cook the food is already cooked and we just get
to eat it but I've never done one in this stage they're pretty expensive but it's a
good gift if you want a gift a couple a cooking class for example it gives them a date night out
um or just to go out with a friend and do it it's fun for sure yeah yeah yeah
that's great that's great I don't know why I was I don't know why I sounded so surprised
about Lima I mean why wouldn't they like oh that's amazing yeah no it's just something
I hope that I get to try one day yeah you should go to Peru someday it's great yeah
um and then we have one last one and I think this one is important what is it Lindsay
to taste right so you can so this yeah you see this a lot on recipes just for your preference
you can say add garlic powder to taste what does that mean if I see that on my recipe it's
like however much you like so I I would probably start with a little do a little taste you know
maybe add a little bit more uh oh yeah I think it is optional but I think it's I think it's
I think it's kind of optional when they say to taste yeah okay good to know I don't know
I mean any anything with cooking is optional especially cooking rather than baking like
you said so I guess if you don't like garlic butter then it's kind it's you don't have it
right yeah you can always finish the recipe and then taste and say oh we need a little bit more
garlic powder you can add it in or you can usually you can go back and add it in so it's optional
when you see to taste add garlic powder to taste all right Michelle how about a role play for our
listeners let's do it so here we are cooking all right surprise crawl okay so next add a dollop of
sour cream okay done okay now a dash of paprika wow this looks good and now a pinch of salt oh
don't add too much careful the lid is loose oh thanks now a splash of orange juice and lime juice
to taste okay we're almost done I wonder what we were making there sour cream and sour cream
salt pepper I think it could be some sort of like uh well I don't know about the orange juice the
orange juice threw me off but um but before that I was thinking you know I might put like that like
on like ground you know turkey or you know some sort of you know like yeah to put in a little taco
or something like that oh Michelle you are more advanced than I am in terms of culinary knowledge
I never would have thought of that all right juice with everything so yeah me too me too
really yeah uh all right let's go back and look at this so okay so net I said okay so
next add a dollop of sour cream and again that word's kind of fun to say all up how
do you spell that by the way for our listeners who are listening to transcripts how do we spell
that good question it's d-o-l-l-o-p dollop okay interesting yeah that is fun what's next
uh then he's at a dash of paprika yeah just a dash right and then okay and now a pinch of salt right
and we pinch it in our hands and then uh and then a splash of orange juice so we just dump a little
bit out but a dash and a splash and then lime juice to taste so add some however much you like
I love it so good wow Michelle this is awesome I don't think we've ever done such a detailed
episode a specific episode about cooking right so we're going into the depths of the kitchen
here guys for you definitely oh my gosh this is fun guys remember to hit follow on the all ears
English podcast so you never miss anything from us so wherever you're listening wherever you listen
to aller's English make sure you hit follow yeah and I think the takeaway for today what I want
you guys to remember from today is don't be afraid to cook and don't be afraid to host dinner parties
there's nothing cooler than having people over to your house you feel comfortable and people
are in your home and you're gonna make something for them that is a really great way to build if
you feel like you have some loose ties maybe some co-workers or some neighbors you just
want to get to know better that is the way to do it don't be shy cook something invite them
over and invite someone to cook invite someone over to cook with you and practice these words
I love that I love that real we can connect over cooking because we all we can smell something we
can enjoy it you know we all eat and so it works it's great it's great awesome well this was fun
Lindsay happy cooking everybody all right take care Michelle talk soon all right bye foreign