cook - use in sentences

Object

  • breakfast: Chris cooked a late breakfast which was followed by beer at the Star.
  • meal: Optional home cooked evening meal with fresh local produce.
  • utensil: All kitchens are equipped with fridge, full size cooker, grill, toaster, kettle, cooking utensils and matching crockery.
  • pasta: Joel and me cooked pasta, which was gross.
  • meat: Don't put raw meat products next to cooked or partially cooked meat on the barbecue.
  • rice: Melt the butter in a saucepan, add the cooked rice, fish and chopped egg.

Preposition: on

  • griddle: Filet Steak 8 oz of Prime Scotch Beef cooked on the griddle to your liking.
  • barbecue: Or try adding chunks of banana to skewers of fish cooked on the barbecue.

Noun used with modifier

  • gourmet: Gourmet cooks will find what they are looking for at a French cooking specialty stall, the spices stall or the garlic stall.
  • pastry: In quick succession, he became pastry cook, cafe manager, restaurant magnate.

Preposition: over

  • heat: Add the chopped cabbage and continue to cook over a medium heat for 5 minutes, stirring.

Preposition: until

  • tender: While the vegetables are cooking place the pasta in a large pan of boiling salted water and cook until tender.

Adjective modifier

  • keen: Ryan is a Lance Corporal in the Slough Company of the Boys Brigade and he is a keen cook.

Followed by an intransitive particle

  • through: Reduce heat to a moderate setting and cook through.

Particle object: up_obj

  • storm: No complaints tho as he cooked up a storm and then we watched The Terminator, which was as good as ever.

Present participle complement

  • stir: Cook stirring for a few minutes, until golden.

Preposition: in

  • oven: They do great pizzas there, cooked in a wood oven.
  • sauce: Once it's cooked in a sauce you cannot taste the difference.

Preposition: for

  • minute: Continue to cook for 3-4 minutes over a low heat.

Preposition: like

  • spinach: The leaves are cooked like spinach or in soup, or eaten raw in salads ( Richter 1981 ).

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