Recipes!

In our next project, we will work with writing recipes for dishes we enjoy eating. The final version of this project will involve a poster that will be presented to class, but for the moment, we will concentrate only on the project’s written component. On the day next week when we present posters, you may bring in and share prepared recipes. This means that, on that day, we will eat in class. However, you will not be assessed on the quality of your food and you are not required to bring food.

In class today, please think of something that you like to eat that you could write a recipe for. (Maybe someone at home could help you.) By the end of class, please submit the name of your recipe, and the ingredients and materials you think will need to make it. (You may need to change some or all of this later. This is not a problem. Consider this the first of several drafts.)

When we begin writing, your recipe should have the following parts.

1. A title (This will be the name of the dish.)
2. An introductory paragraph – This will tell your readers about why you chose this dish, when you have eaten it, what it tastes like, what it looks like, what it smells like, etc.
3. A list of at least four ingredients.
4. Directions – This will include at least four ordered steps written in full sentences using imperative verbs.
5. An original labeled illustration in color of your ingredients.
6. An original labeled illustration in color of your final dish.

When we have all the parts, we will make posters for presentation to the class. As with previous projects, your work will be assessed with reference to language, content, structure and style.

Here’s an example of what your recipe might look like.

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Super Chunky Peanut Butter and Banana Sandwich

Nothing is more delicious at lunchtime than a nice sticky, crunchy, peanutty peanut butter and banana sandwich. Whenever I play football on the weekends this is what my mom makes for me. One of my favorite things about this dish is that, since it has two halves and isn’t served hot, I don’t have to eat it all at once. I eat one half at “half time” and the second when the game is over!

Ingredients

2 slices of white bread

4 tablespoons of chunky peanut butter

1 large ripe banana

2 glasses of your beverage of choice

Materials

1 small kitchen knife

1 toaster

1 butter knife

1 bread knife

1 plate

Directions

1. Peel the banana.
2. Using the small kitchen knife, slice the banana into about ten circular slices about 4 cm. thick.
3. Using the toaster, toast the two slices of white bread.
4. Using the butter knife, spread 4 tablespoons of chunky peanut butter on one side of one piece of toast.
5. Place as many banana slices as possible without stacking on top of the spread peanut butter.
6. Eat leftover banana pieces.
7. Put second piece of toast on top of banana slices.
8. Push down gently on sandwich until peanut butter begins to squeeze from its sides.
9. Cut the sandwich diagonally into two equal triangular halves.
10. Serve with two glasses of your beverage of choice. (Peanut butter sticks inside your mouth!)