Every month I try to make something easy, healthy, and delicious so that we can all cook and learn new English words together. This month is the Strawberry Avocado Toast. It tastes as delicious as it looks!

My brother-in-law (my husband's younger brother) lives on a beautiful island in Washington State called Whidbey Island. Last weekend, my husband and I took a drive from Seattle to visit him, his wife and meet their newborn baby, Mario (he is so adorable!). They have a beautiful garden with lots of vegetables, fruits, and chickens! We got a bag of delicious produce from them. If you follow me on Instagram, you would have probably seen it! Since we had some strawberries from his garden, I decided to make this super easy Strawberry Avocado Toast recipe. Follow this recipe and learn seven new verbs.

Slice (v.) cut something into pieces, usually into flat thin pieces
Drizzle (v.)pour liquid lightly over something
Soak (v.)place in liquid so it absorbs
Scoop (v.)remove something out with a spoon
Smash (v.) break something into smaller pieces
Spread (v.) layer something on an area
Squeeze (v.) press something together to release liquid or change the shape or make smaller

If you make this recipe or have another similar recipe, please share your delicious work with me!

RECIPE VOCABULARIES
All-purpose: (adj.) suitable for many uses
Grilled: (v.) cooking something at very high temperature with fire or coal usually on a grill
Whisk: (v.) stir or beat together
Skillet: (n.) frying pan
Flatten: (v.) to make something flat, smooth, even surface that is wide but not thick
Flip: (v.) turn something over to the other side quickly

The original recipe is from Table For Two food blog. Please visit the site to find the original and other interesting recipes to try! 

Related Lessons:
No-bake Cookie Recipe
Household Chores

Summer is almost here which means there's lots of sweet delicious corn here! Corn doesn't cost very much but it's insanely delicious! Don't you agree? It tastes good in so many ways: boiled, grilled, canned. Of course with the warmer weather approaching, I just had to feature a corn recipe found from Table For Two food blog . As promised before, I try to make these recipes before I post them. You can see my pictures below. It was quick, easy and delicious. Before you start, don't forget to learn the new vocabularies for this recipe on the bottom. Remember the point of making this isn't to become a professional chef, but it's to help you learn names of ingredients, nouns, verbs, and adjectives used in cooking while enjoying a delicious outcome!

GRILLED CORN FRITTERS 
Total time needed: 15 minutes

(1) 1/3 cup of yellow cornmeal
(2) 1/4 all-purpose flour
(3) 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
(4) 1 teaspoon salt
(5) 1/2 teaspoon ground pepper
(6) Bunch of chopped parsley
(7) 1/3 cup of milk
(8) 2 cups of grilled corn (you can also use canned corn)
(9) Some vegetable oil

(1) Get a large bowl. Add the cornmeal, flour, baking powder, salt, pepper, and parsley in a large bowl, then whisk together.

(2) Add the milk and mix the ingredients together.

(3) Add the corn into the mixture so everything is mixed together very well.

(4) Warm up a skillet on medium-high heat and place about 1/3 cup of the mixture onto the skillet and press down to flatten it. Do this to rest of the mixture. Leave them on skillet for about 5 minutes each side then flip it!

(5) Serve and enjoy!

As you may know, starting from last month, The English Student has been featuring a new easy recipe every month. The point of this is to encourage you to practice English vocabulary while doing something fun! This month I am making a no-bake chocolate oatmeal cookie. I love anything that's simple, so the recipe definitely appealed to me. You can always find the recipe of the month on the right-hand side of the Homepage). I made it today and it took me only about 20 minutes and was delicious! You can see my cookies below. If you're a chocolate or peanut butter lover, it's a must try! You don't even have to bake it!

This recipe, which is on the bottom of this page, has seven ingredients, but if you're like me, you probably already have milk, sugar, butter, and peanut butter at  home. So I only had to purchase a few items from the store. One of the most important ingredient here is the chocolate. The recipe asks for SEMI-SWEET chocolate. SEMI is a prefix placed before a word to mean "partly but not completely". Semisweet chocolate has more chocolate percentage than Milk Chocolate but less than Dark Chocolate. So it's partly sweet and chocolaty but not completely! That's the meaning of SEMI.

Some other important verbs used in this recipe are:

Combine- to put and mix different things together
Boil- to heat something until it starts bubbling and steaming
Stir- to mix something together round and round with a spoon or stick
Add- to join one thing together with another thing
Remove- to take away
Drop- let something fall
Place- put something somewhere

You can learn and practice so much English here. Try it out by yourself, with a friend or with your family and let me know how your cookie turns out!

No Bake Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies from Back to the Cutting Board
Prep time: 30 min | Cook time: 1 hour | Total time: 1 hour 30 min

Ingredients

• 2 cups sugar
• 1/2 cup butter
• 1/2 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
• 1/2 cup milk
• 1 tsp. vanilla
• 1 cup peanut butter
• 3 cups quick oats

Process

1. In a large saucepan over medium heat, combine sugar, butter, chocolate chips and milk and bring to boil. Cook for a minute.
2. Remove from heat and add the vanilla, peanut butter and oats, one at a time, stirring well after each addition. The oats should be the last thing you add.
3. Quickly drop by spoonfuls onto waxed paper and let set (1-3 hours)